The Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley [complete in 3 volumes]

Shelley, Percy Bysshe [poet]; Ricketts, Charles [illus.]

1901, First Edition. London : Printed at the Ballantyne Press. Very good copies in the original title-blocked cream buckram. Unread, with uncut pages. Boards are stained, with bumped corners. Foxing to page edges and scattered throughout. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #456247

Physical description; 3 v. ; 24 cm. Contents; V.1. Prometheus unbound. Cenci. --v.2. Adonais. Epipsychidion. Alastor, Hellas. The witch of Atlas. The sensitive plant. Ode to the west wind. To a skylark. To night. To the moon. Hymn to intellectual beauty. Hymn of pan. Arethusa. The cloud. An exhortation. "Chameleons feed on light and air." Evening. Ponte a mare Pisa. Stanzas written in dejection, near Naples. "Rarely, rarely, comest thou, spirit of delight." A lament. "O world! O life! O time." "When the lamp is shattered." Mutability. "One word is too often profaned." "Music when soft voices die." Time. "That time is dead forever, child." A song. "A widow bird satmourning for her love." The world's wanderers. A dirge. Dirge for the year. Lines to an Indian air. Good night. Summer and winter. Time long past. -- v.3. The revolt of Islam.

Price: €825.00