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Lot 216
Sale 873 - Fine Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 12, 2021
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Lot Description
SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822). The Poems. London: The Vale Press, 1901.
3 volumes, 8vo. Wood-engraved pansy border by C. Keats after Charles Ricketts at text opening of each volume, woodcut initials by Ricketts. (Some very minor mostly marginal spotting to a few leaves.) Original white buckram, uncut and unopened (some very minor spotting or soiling, fore-edge of vols. I & II slightly bumped). Provenance: Shepard Book Company (bookseller's label); Louis V. Ledoux (1880-1948), American poet, George Edward Woodberry scholar, Japanese print collector (engraved bookplate).
LIMITED EDITION, one of 310 unnumbered copies on paper of a total edition of 320.
[With:]
[GROLIER CLUB] -- GRANNISS, Ruth S. A Descriptive Catalogue of the First Editions in Book Form of the Writings of Percy Bysshe Shelley. New York: The Grolier Club, 1923. Original boards, uncut and unopened; original glassine; original slipcase.
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York
