BIB_ID
137781
Accession number
MA 1067
Creator
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.
Display Date
undated [1817-1823].
Credit line
Purchased, 1929.
Description
1 item (17 p.), bound ; 30.7 cm
Notes
Mary Shelley began Valperga at Marlow in 1817. The work was edited by her father William Godwin in 1821-1822, and it was published in 1823.
Provenance
Bookplate of Jerome Kern; purchased at his sale (New York, Anderson, Jan. 1929).
Summary
Differing from the text of the first printed edition (1823), and including parts of Vol. I, chapter 6 and Vol. III, chapter 8. Pages are numbered 12, 11-12 (95-96), 118-123, 136-137, 200-201, 205-206. With autograph corrections and revisions throughout.
Housed in
Gray morocco portfolio case (33.4 cm)
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