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SHELLEY (PERCY BYSSHE)
The Daemon of the World, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 2 COPIES ON SPECIAL PAPER

23 May 2012, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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SHELLEY (PERCY BYSSHE)

The Daemon of the World, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 2 COPIES ON SPECIAL PAPER, bookplate (by Dorothea Braby, signed with initials) of Maurice Buxton Forman, and an inserted note in his hand, full dark blue morocco by Root, small 4to, Privately Printed by H. Buxton Forman, 1876

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"The fifty copies were all printed on the same paper - a fine hand-made 'wove' paper, the whitest I could get... two copies were pulled on an ugly yellow Dutch hand-made paper which I rejected. They were not destroyed but are stowed away somewhere, and may perhaps be found among my papers.." (Forman, Shelley Library, p.126. See illustration overleaf.

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