First edition.
SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe.—St. Irvyne; or, the Rosicrucian. A Romance. By a Gentleman of Oxford. London: printed for J. J. Stockdale . . . 1822. 12mo, brown levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Rivière.
SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe.—Queen Mab; a philosophical poem: with Notes. By Percy Bysshe Shelley . . . London: printed by P. B. Shelley, . . . 1813. 8vo, red levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Bedford.
First edition.
Privately printed on fine paper. It is said that two hundred and fifty copies were printed, but Carlisle, the publisher, said that only one hundred and eighty copies were issued, and that from these Shelley himself removed the title-page and printer's name.
SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe.—Queen Mab. By Percy Bysshe Shelley. London: printed and published by W. Clark . . . 1821. 8vo, brown levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Rivière.
First published edition. Thick paper copy.
SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe.—Queen Mab; a Philosophical Poem. By Percy Bysshe Shelley. New York: printed by William Baldwin and Co . . . 1821. 18mo, green levant morocco, Janseniste, gilt top, uncut edges.
First American edition, edited by "A Pantheist," with the Greek, Latin, and French passages translated. The editor deplores the fact that Shelley's publisher was prosecuted "by an infamous junta of canting hypocrites, assuming the title of 'A Society for the Suppression of Vice.'"