BIB_ID
137681
Accession number
MA 974
Creator
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822.
Display Date
[ca. 1819 Aug. 15].
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1920.
Description
1 item (27 p.) ; 10.1 cm
Notes
617 lines.
Julian and Maddalo was first published in Shelley's Posthumous Poems, ed. Mary Shelley (London, 1824). Mary Shelley used an earlier version (probably an intermediate fair copy) of the poem when preparing this edition. The text of the present manuscript was first printed in H. Buxton Forman's The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Reeves & Turner, 1877), vol. 3, p. 107-130. --Cf. Reiman and O'Neill (p. 203).
The poem was first composed at Este, in the Autumn on 1818. This later fair copy was sent by Shelley to Leigh Hunt in a letter (Livorno, Aug. 15, 1819) for anonymous publication by Charles Ollier.
The two characters are Shelley and Byron; see Ingpen and Peck, vol. 3, p. 177.
Julian and Maddalo was first published in Shelley's Posthumous Poems, ed. Mary Shelley (London, 1824). Mary Shelley used an earlier version (probably an intermediate fair copy) of the poem when preparing this edition. The text of the present manuscript was first printed in H. Buxton Forman's The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Reeves & Turner, 1877), vol. 3, p. 107-130. --Cf. Reiman and O'Neill (p. 203).
The poem was first composed at Este, in the Autumn on 1818. This later fair copy was sent by Shelley to Leigh Hunt in a letter (Livorno, Aug. 15, 1819) for anonymous publication by Charles Ollier.
The two characters are Shelley and Byron; see Ingpen and Peck, vol. 3, p. 177.
Provenance
Enclosed by Shelley in a letter to Leigh Hunt; found among Hunt's paper by Mr. Townshend Mayer; H. Buxton Forman; his sale (New York, March 15, 1920, lot 704) to E. D. North for J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1920.
Summary
A fair copy of the poem.
Housed in
Laid in an ivory binding and housed in a blue cloth drop-spine box (23 cm)
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