Scarce and magnificent deluxe edition of this beautifully illustrated edition of Shelley's poem in the original dust jacket.
Very good plus in very good jacket.
Price: $1,100.00
"That garden sweet, that lady fair / And all sweet shapes and odours there, / In truth have never passed away: / 'Tis we, 'tis ours, are changed; not they."
First published with Prometheus Bound in 1820, The Sensitive Plant was inspired in part by Margaret King, Lady Mountcashell: author, political radical, onetime pupil of Mary Wollstonecraft, and acquaintance of Shelley, that most sensitive plant of all. Quite rare in the original unrestored dust jacket and with the vellum as fresh as this.
London / Philadelphia: William Heinemann / J.B. Lippincott, [1911]. 10.5'' x 8''. Full publisher's vellum with elaborate pictorial gilt. Top edge gilt. In original pictorial dust jacket with "cash price in Great Britain and Ireland 15/- net." Pictorial endpapers, 18 tipped-in color plates, and additional illustrations by Charles Robinson. Contemporary ink gift inscription to half-title. Mild areas of discoloration and faint spotting to boards. Jacket with some chipping and a few small tears to jacket, particularly at spine.
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