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The revolt of Islam : a poem, in twelve cantos / by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Accession number
PML 16718
Creator
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822.
Published
London : Printed for C. & J. Ollier by B. McMillan, 1817 [i.e. 1818]
Credit line
Purchased[?] by Pierpont Morgan before April, 1910.
Notes
1st ed., 1st issue, with date misprinted 1817.
Contains fly-title with the Greek quotation from Pindar and errata sheet bound in at end.
Very rare - few copies known with date 1817.
First edition under this title, a re-issue of "Laon and Cythna" with cancels.
The first signature of the preface is mis-bound: b4, b3, b6, b5, b7-8.
Uncut copy.
Description
xxxii, 270 p. ; 23 cm.
Binding
Publisher's original drab boards, with paper spine label: The Revolt of Islam, 10s. 6d. Boards.; with a yellow J&J.Thomson (Manchester) ticket adhered to front paste-down; housed in blue case.
Classification
Department