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Lot 185

FORMAN (HARRY BUXTON)
The Shelley Library

23 May 2012, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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FORMAN (HARRY BUXTON)

The Shelley Library, a Forman copy, dated by him in manuscript ("15.3.86") on flyleaf, a number of letters and cuttings previously inserted bound at the end, boards, rebacked, 8vo, Shelley Society, 1886

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Most of the extra material concerns a copy of Shelley's Queen Mab, lot 355 in the Alfred Crampon of Paris sale at Sothebys in 1896. It includes letters from T.J. Wise to Forman (2), and Tom Hodge of Sothebys, and there are several statements from Forman including hectograph copies of letters sent to The Times and other papers.

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