SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. The Masque of Anarchy. A Poem . Preface by Leigh Hunt. London: Bradbury and Evans for Edward Moxon, 1832. 12 o (172 x 103 mm). Half-title. (A few leaves roughly opened with some marginal soiling.) Original blue-grey boards (rebacked); quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance : a few pencilled marginalia -- purchased from Scribner Rare Books, New York, 29 January 1969. FIRST EDITION of Shelley's response to the Peterloo affair (the so-called "Manchester Massacre") of 1819. The text includes a prefatory sketch of Shelley by Leigh Hunt, to whom Shelley had sent the manuscript in 1819 for publication in The Examiner . Hunt withheld it from publication because he "thought that the public at large had not become sufficiently discerning to do justice to the sincerity and kind-heartedness of the spirit that walked in this flaming robe of verse." Ashley V, p.89; Granniss/Grolier Shelley 80; Tinker 1905; Wise Shelley , p.71.
SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. The Masque of Anarchy. A Poem . Preface by Leigh Hunt. London: Bradbury and Evans for Edward Moxon, 1832. 12 o (172 x 103 mm). Half-title. (A few leaves roughly opened with some marginal soiling.) Original blue-grey boards (rebacked); quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance : a few pencilled marginalia -- purchased from Scribner Rare Books, New York, 29 January 1969. FIRST EDITION of Shelley's response to the Peterloo affair (the so-called "Manchester Massacre") of 1819. The text includes a prefatory sketch of Shelley by Leigh Hunt, to whom Shelley had sent the manuscript in 1819 for publication in The Examiner . Hunt withheld it from publication because he "thought that the public at large had not become sufficiently discerning to do justice to the sincerity and kind-heartedness of the spirit that walked in this flaming robe of verse." Ashley V, p.89; Granniss/Grolier Shelley 80; Tinker 1905; Wise Shelley , p.71.
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