8vo. With the leaf bearing the errata and advertisements. Later green calf gilt, smooth spine gilt, brown decorative morocco lettering-pieces gilt, edges gilt, stamp-signed by Zaehnsdorf for A. C. McClurg (spine slightly sunned, some minor rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Louis V. Ledoux (1880-1948), American poet, George Edward Woodberry scholar, Japanese print collector (engraved bookplate).

FIRST EDITION, one of fewer than 500 copies printed, much of the edition was suppressed by Shelley's father, Sir Timothy Shelley. "It was with difficulty that a publisher was found for the book, the sale of two hundred and fifty copies being guaranteed by Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Bryan Waller Proctor ("Barry Cornwall") and Thomas Forbes Felsall" (Granniss Shelley 78).  Ashley V, p.88; Tinker 1904; Wise Shelley, p.70.