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Lot 210
Sale 873 - Fine Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 12, 2021
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$400 -
600
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$1,625
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Lot Description
SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822). Miscellaneous Poems. London: William Benbow, 1826.
12mo (150 x 90 mm). 20th-century brown crushed levant elaborately gilt, uncut, stamp-signed by Riviere & Son. Provenance: Louis V. Ledoux (1880-1948), American poet, George Edward Woodberry scholar, Japanese print collector (engraved bookplate).
PIRATED FIRST EDITION, largely a reprint of the Posthumous Poems, omitting the longer poems and translations, but including "Lines written in Dejection," which does not occur in the Posthumous Poems. VERY RARE: According to American Book Prices Current, only four copies of this edition have sold at auction in the last 35 years.
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York

