A Shelley library :

a catalogue of printed books, manuscripts and autograph letters by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harriet Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley /
collected by Thomas James Wise.
Bibliographic Details
Main Creator: Wise, Thomas James, 1859-1937.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published / Created: London : Printed for private circulation only, 1924.
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Notes:Part of plates printed on both sides.

"Of this book one hundred and sixty copies only have been printed upon antique paper."

Introduction signed: Roger Ingpen.

Device on recto of last leaf inscribed: "The Ashley library. Privately printed 1924."

"With seven or eight exceptions, every item included ... has already been described in the full catalogue of the Ashley library. But in that work all are not to be found together. Certain books ... documents ... and letters ... had of necessity to be entered under the names of their respective authors. I have found satisfaction in gathering them all into one complete and distinctive group."--Pref., p. vii.

Device on recto of last leaf inscribed: "The Ashley library. Privately printed 1924."

"With seven or eight exceptions, every item included ... has already been described in the full catalogue of the Ashley library. But in that work all are not to be found together. Certain books ... documents ... and letters ... had of necessity to be entered under the names of their respective authors. I have found satisfaction in gathering them all into one complete and distinctive group."--Pref., p. vii.

Physical description: xvii, 164, [2] p. : ill. (port.), facsims. ; 27 cm.

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