![SHELLEY (PERCY BYSSHE) Poems and Sonnets... edited by Charles Alfred Seymour [i.e. T.J. Wise], ONE OF 5 COPIES ON VELLUM](http://images1.bonhams.com/image?src=Images/live/2012-03/21/8429216-2-1.jpg&tmp=web300&top=0.000000&left=0.000000&right=1.000000&bottom=1.000000&dt=zoom_image "SHELLEY (PERCY BYSSHE) Poems and Sonnets... edited by Charles Alfred Seymour [i.e. T.J. Wise], ONE OF 5 COPIES ON VELLUM
Sold for £562 inc. premium")
23 May 2012
14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge
The Stuart B. Schimmel Forgery Collection; and other properties
Back to auction 20136
The Stuart B. Schimmel Forgery Collection; and other properties
Back to auction 20136
SHELLEY (PERCY BYSSHE)
Poems and Sonnets... edited by Charles Alfred Seymour [i.e. T.J. Wise], ONE OF 5 COPIES ON VELLUM, from an edition limited to 35 copies, original wrappers, uncut, cloth slipcase, leather label, Grolier exhibition label inserted [Todd 252p], 4to, Philadelphia, Privately Printed, [London, Richard Clay], 1887
Sold for
£562
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Pirated by Wise, mostly from Dowden's Life of Shelley, 1886. Four copies are listed on ABPC, the last in 1987, and the only other vellum copy recorded sold for £750 to Maggs in 1982.
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