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British Library, Historical Print Editions, 2011-02-17. Paperback. Good.

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Queen Mab; a philosophical poem. [With an editor's preface, signed, "A Pantheist," and with an Ode to the author, signed, "R. C. F."].

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London: Printed by P. B. Shelley, 23, Chapel Street, Grosvenor Square (actually by an unknown printer for Thomas Hookham),, 1813. Shelley's most provocative poem, rare in the original boards First edition, an "unmutilated" copy with title page and final leaf intact, and including the poetic dedication to Harriet Shelley. Copies in this state and in the original boards are extremely rare; we can trace only three copies offered at auction in almost half a century. This "unmutilated" state has always been preferred by collectors and has consistently fetched far higher prices than "mutilated" copies. The "unmutilated" state offers one of the most inflammatory title pages of the era. Knowing that only a very few would see it, Shelley was free to give vent to his revolutionary and atheistical fervour. The title carries a quotation from every freethinker's favourite Latin author, Lucretius, and Archimedes's aphorism in Greek: "Only give me a place on which to stand, and I shall move the whole world." Bolder… Read More