Research Catalog

Title

Queen Mab / by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Author

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822.

Publication

London : Printed and published by W. Clark ..., 1821.

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Details

Additional Authors

Clark, W.

Description

182, [2] p.; 23 cm. (8vo)

Subject

• Society for the Suppression of Vice (London, England)

Note

• Signatures: [1]-11⁸, 12⁴[w/ms: A; 1820]
• Dashes where text is suppressed.

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Indexed In (note)

• Forman

Call Number

Pforz (Shelley, P. Queen Mab) 1821

OCLC

2514304

Author

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822.

Title

Queen Mab / by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Imprint

London : Printed and published by W. Clark ..., 1821.

Restricted Access

Restricted access; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Indexed In:

Forman, no. 23

Local Note

Copy 1: Drab boards, mostly detached, back badly chipped, untrimmed; in CHPL envelope. -- Suppressed text inked in. -- Dedication leaf conjugate with 181-2.

Copy 2: Drab boards; in CHPL envelope. -- Publisher's advts. at back.

Copy 3: 1/2 red paste-grain leather, gilt spine decorations, rules, and titling, gilt cover rules, mottled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt.

Copy 4: Half brown calf, gilt and blind rules, brown morocco lettering-piece, French shell boards, marbled edges. -- Ex-libris: George Allison Armour.

Copy 5: 1/2 dark blue calf, red and blue morocco lettering-pieces. -- None of the text is suppressed; w/o dedication or advts.

Copy 6: Original drab boards. -- None of the text is suppressed; includes advt. leaf. Within blue quarter morocco case.

Copy 7: Original drab boards. -- Book-plate and library label of Charles Dickens.

Copy 8: Original drab boards. -- None of the text is suppressed; includes dedication leaf and advt. leaf.

Copy 9: Gray boards, brown morocco grain back. -- Mounted slip, engraved: F.J. Sebley.

Copy 10: Drab boards; in CHPL envelope. -- Suppressed text not inked in.

Copy 11: Bound 1st in vol. that includes the 1829 Brooks Queen Mab; polished tree calf. -- Includes conjugate dedication leaf at back. None of the text is suppressed. -- Bookplate: John Sheepshanks.

Copy 12: Original drab boards; in CHPL envelope.

Copy 13: Bound first in vol. that includes Reply to the anti-matrimonial hypothesis... as laid down in Queen Mab. -- Diced tan calf. -- Name on front paste-down.

Copy 14: Worn roan; bound by C. Easton, Edinburgh. -- Dedication leaf is inserted after t.p. -- Name on front binder's leaf.

Copy 15: Later gray-green boards. -- Announcement for Forman lecture laid in. -- Engraved book-plate; in ink on binder's leaf: H Buxton Forman/23 Oct 1875; in pencil (Forman hand) "mutilated". In white envelope.

Copy 16: Blue-gray boards; in blue cloth folder within blue cloth slip-case with green morocco back label.

Copy 17: William Beckford's copy, with his penciled annotations on the initial blank leaf. Nineteenth-century half red straight-grain morocco. (Shelleyana 949)

Copy 18: "Indictment copy," with notes and page numbers on the verso of the blank leaf facing the title page, and underlinings and marginal notes identifying "blasphemous" sentiments. Used by the Society for the Suppression of Vice to prosecute the publisher, William Clark. -- Bookplate of Lee Edmunds Grove. Original brown boards. In gray cloth slipcase.

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Added Author

Clark, W., printer. Publisher

Armour, George Allison. Former owner

Beckford, William, 1760-1844. Former owner

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Former owner

Forman, H. Buxton (Harry Buxton), 1842-1917. Former owner

Grove, Lee Edmonds, 1909-1971. Former owner

Sheepshanks, John. Former owner

Research Call Number

Pforz (Shelley, P. Queen Mab) 1821