Queen Mab; a Philosophical Poem
by Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
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- first
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- Original brown boards with spine perishing and upper cover detached. Thumb-sized bit of loss to one of the pages of the preface,
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About This Item
This edition includes a preface with an explanation it was "got up merely with a view to give extensive circulation to the principles contained both in the poem and in the notes" in the wake of Clarke's [sic.] persucution for publishing the poem in England, and "that it might come into the hands of all classes of society." The preface also includes an explanatory letter sent by Shelley to the Examiner, disowning the publication under his name so as to avoid the same obscenity claims as author that befell Clark as publisher and would later befall Benbow. It also includes "Ode to the Author of Queen Mab," and excerpted text of an 1815 letter in George Cannon's Theological Enquirer [sic.]. Granniss 22; Scwhartz, L. M., "Two New Contemporary Reviews of Shelley's Queen Mab", Keats-Shelley Journal, 1970, Vol. 19 (1970), pp. 77-85
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- Bookseller
- James Cummins Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 322392
- Title
- Queen Mab; a Philosophical Poem
- Author
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
- Format/Binding
- 181, [14]pp. 1 vols. 12mo
- Book Condition
- Used - Original brown boards with spine perishing and upper cover detached. Thumb-sized bit of loss to one of the pages of the preface,
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition", variant with an engraved title-page, an
- Publisher
- Printed by William Baldwin and Co. corner of Chatham Street
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1821
- Keywords
- Poetry | Romanticism | British | American | Percy Bysshe Shelley
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- Literature;
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