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Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Poetical Works - (c 1880) With memoir, explanatory notes, contents pages etc. With original illustrations and steel engraved portrait.
London, Frederick Warne & Co., 8vo (19 x 15 cms) pp xv. 613 + 10 publisher’s catalogue. Bound in elegantly decorated dark green buckram with gilt and black ornaments. Gilt engraving of Shelley signed in gilt to upper board. All edges gilt. Half title present.
Condition: A very good clean copy with clean text and engraved pages. Tight binding. Lacks front free blank endpaper.
Together with:
Homer - The Iliad and the Odyssey - Translated by Alexander Pope - With notes and introduction by The Rev., Theodore Alouis Buckley M.A., F.S.A. - Designs by Flaxman, and copious index. Undated (c 1878).
London, Frederick Warne & Co., 8vo ( 19 x 15 cms) pp. lii. 850 + 2 publisher’s catalogue. Bound in elegantly decorated dark red buckram with gilt and black ornaments. Steel engraved portrait of Homer to frontispiece. Gilt engraving of Homer with signature in gilt to upper board. All edges gilt. Half title present.
Condition: A very good clean copy with clean text pages and designs, tight binding, school prize presentation plate dated 1878 pasted to front fixed endpaper. 67472973
