Lot 17 , Shelley, Percy Bysshe - Poetical Pieces .... containing Prometheus Unmasked .... Hellas ... The Cenci ...

Shelley, Percy Bysshe - Poetical Pieces .... containing Prometheus Unmasked .... Hellas ... The Cenci ... Rosalind and Helen, 8vo, half calf, text occasionally spotted, C. and J. Ollier and W. Simpkin and R, Marshall, London 1823.
Note: The posthumous gathering of unsold first editions of Prometheus Unmasked (1820), Hellas (1822) and Rosalind and Helen (1819) and the second (but first London) edition of The Cenci (1821), all under a new general title page.
Wise, A Shelley Library, p.69, notes "During recent years nearly every available copy has been broken up ... and the three first editions have been separately bound. Thus it seldom occurs today"
Estimate £800-1,200

No writings or bookplates and there are no signs of restoration


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Sold for £1,800