BIB_ID
137674
Accession number
MA 3223
Creator
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822.
Display Date
[1821].
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Sara D. Redmond, 1974.
Description
1 v. (6 p.), bound ; 23.9 cm
Notes
The poems were originally written on one larger sheet of paper, which was folded by Shelley and later torn into at least three separate sheets (as they are now), each measuring ca. 12.5 x 10.5 cm.
These poems were transcribed by Shelley "from among the unpublished poems he had earlier copied for safekeeping into the larger Harvard Shelley Notebook."--Cf. Reiman and O'Neill.
These poems were transcribed by Shelley "from among the unpublished poems he had earlier copied for safekeeping into the larger Harvard Shelley Notebook."--Cf. Reiman and O'Neill.
Provenance
Sent by Shelley to Leigh Hunt or Charles Ollier for publication probably after August 26, 1821; Charles Ollier; by descent to his son Edmund Ollier; his sale (Puttick & Simpson, 19 July 1877, lot 75); booksellers ticket of John Howell, Importer, San Francisco; gift of Mrs. Sara D. Redmond, 1974.
Summary
Fair copies of three poems, originally written on a single sheet of paper (folded by Shelley into a bifolium and later torn apart, probably by Ollier or the printer).
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (27 cm)
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