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Lot 119

SHELLEY (PERCY BYSSHE)
Laon and Cythna; or, the Revolution of the Golden City: A Vision of the Nineteenth Century in the Stanza of Spenser, FIRST EDITION

10 November 2009, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£3,000 - £4,000

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Footnotes

The first edition, issued before the numerous charges demanded by the publisher Ollier, who was concerned about possible incestuous and blasphemous passages within the poem.

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