Shelley, Percy Bysshe LAON AND CYTHNA: OR, THE REVOLUTION OF THE GOLDEN CITY... LONDON: SHERWOOD, NEELY AND JONES, 1818. 8vo (218 x 136 mm). Uncut and unopened, no half-title as issued, blank after the title present, errata leaf at rear; light spotting. Original gray boards with printed spine label; spotted. Cloth slipcase. first edition of this suppressed work. Wise's second issue (preceded by a few copies sent to Shelley for presentation that contain the half-title and sometime an advertisement leaf, though it is arguable if these variations of make-up are a point of issue). Laon and Cythna was written "mostly in the woods of Marlow, or in a boat on the Thames during the summer of 1817" (Graniss). It was printed in an edition of 750 copies during the second half of the same year (and postdated). When, however, only a few copies had been issued the publisher demanded that certain passages, chiefly overtly anti-Christian phrases and references to an incestuous relationship between hero and heroine, be removed. Under protest, Shelley agreed; the resulting alterations led to a new title-page (The Revolt of Islam), half-title and twenty-six cancel leaves. The content which so worried the publisher meant that the work was never really published. As a result of its suppression, even the present issue is relatively scarce, especially so as here, an entirely unsophisticated example.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe LAON AND CYTHNA: OR, THE REVOLUTION OF THE GOLDEN CITY... LONDON: SHERWOOD, NEELY AND JONES, 1818. 8vo (218 x 136 mm). Uncut and unopened, no half-title as issued, blank after the title present, errata leaf at rear; light spotting. Original gray boards with printed spine label; spotted. Cloth slipcase. first edition of this suppressed work. Wise's second issue (preceded by a few copies sent to Shelley for presentation that contain the half-title and sometime an advertisement leaf, though it is arguable if these variations of make-up are a point of issue). Laon and Cythna was written "mostly in the woods of Marlow, or in a boat on the Thames during the summer of 1817" (Graniss). It was printed in an edition of 750 copies during the second half of the same year (and postdated). When, however, only a few copies had been issued the publisher demanded that certain passages, chiefly overtly anti-Christian phrases and references to an incestuous relationship between hero and heroine, be removed. Under protest, Shelley agreed; the resulting alterations led to a new title-page (The Revolt of Islam), half-title and twenty-six cancel leaves. The content which so worried the publisher meant that the work was never really published. As a result of its suppression, even the present issue is relatively scarce, especially so as here, an entirely unsophisticated example.
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