£98.00 GBP • Used
1st edition. "This is the first biography to make use of the diary of Shelley's first sweetheart, Harriet Grove; a number of letters bearing on his wife; basic information on a domestic tragedy wh...
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1st edition. "This is the first biography to make use of the diary of Shelley's first sweetheart, Harriet Grove; a number of letters bearing on his wife; basic information on a domestic tragedy whose effects on his work during 1818 have been almost unknown; the full story of the "daughter" of Shelley and Mary baptized in Naples; and a great mass of contemporary criticism of his work." Volume I: Pp.xvi/748, colour portrait frontispiece + 40 black & white illustrations, minor spotting to endpapers. Vollume II: Pp.x/642/cxlvii(index), black & white portrait frontispiece + 43 further black & white illustrations, minor spotting to endpaers. Both volumes bound in blue cloth which has uneven bleached areas. White dustwrappers toned to spines with soiling to front and rear, losses to lower front corner and large section of lower rear of Vol.I and tear and hole to front of Vol.II.(both dustwrappers have a removable clear protective wrap. Scarce. A heavy set which may cost extra to send overseas. G+/Good.
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Publisher: London: Secker & Warburg, 1947.
Type: Used
Binding: Softcover
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