"NO OTHER POET HAS COME SO NEAR TO A VISION SO CAPABLE OF TRANSFORMING HUMAN LIFE": SELECTED WORKS BY SHELLEY, HANDSOMELY BOUND BY SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE

SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. NEWBOLT, Henry John. Percy Bysshe Shelley [Poems]. London & Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson & Sons, [1925]. 12mo, contemporary full tan morocco gilt, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, floral-patterned endpapers, all edges gilt. $950.

Henry Newbolt's edition of Shelley, in an elegant Sangorski & Sutcliffe binding.

Poet, novelist and historian Sir Henry Newbolt selected these Shelley poems and supplied the introduction. The text is based on Buxton Forman's highly regarded Aldine edition, and the frontispiece portrait of Shelley is signed "G.P." "Some of the loveliest lyrics in English, together with longer poems unsurpassed in beauty and grandeur, came from the pen of this visionary, half-unearthly man… The dominant impression of his work is that of pure and ineffable beauty" (Kunitz & Haycraft, 559). CBEL IV:441.

Spine gently sunned; pages very clean. An attractive volume.