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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley - Reissue With the Notes of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - In Four Volumes [4 volume set]
by Shelley, Percy Bysshe; edited by Harry Buxton Forman
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ with No dust jacket as issued
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Longmans, Green, and Co.. Good+ with No dust jacket as issued. 1892. Hardcover. A good working set, although needing many leaves to be opened (with a blunt knife) before they can be read. Complete with all plates.; Four volumes, complete. All volumes rebacked in original boards. Gilt butterfly and bird illustration at two corners of front boards. Later endpapers. Volume Two has most of the original spine cloth laid down. The other 3 volumes have plain spines with no lettering. Volume 4 only with top page edges gilt. Page dimensions: 220 x 139mm. Volume One: [4], cxiv, 413, [3 (blank)] pages + frontispiece + 2 plates; Volume Two: vii, [1], 438, [2 (blank)] pages + frontispiece; Volume Three: xx, 477, [2], [1 (blank)] pages + frontispiece + 3 plates; Volume Four: xix, [1], 573, [2], [3 (blank)] pages + frontispiece. Most leaves unopned in all volumes One and Three, some leaves unopened in volume Two. [NB: No additional shipping other than our usual book rate will be required on this heavy (3.71kg) set.] .
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- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22767
- Title
- The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley - Reissue With the Notes of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - In Four Volumes [4 volume set]
- Author
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe; edited by Harry Buxton Forman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with No dust jacket as issued
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green, and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1892
- Keywords
- Poetry English Literature
Terms of Sale
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Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Edges
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- Unopened
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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- Good+
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- Rebacked
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Leaves
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