The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

viii, 705, [3] pp. 8vo. A collection of poetry by the major figure in the English Romantic period, close friend of fellow poet Lord Byron, and husband to Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein. Edited with an introduction by Edward Dowden, and including the preface by Mary Shelley from the 1839 first collected edition, the postscript from the 1839 second edition, and the preface by Mary Shelley to the volume of posthumous poems published in 1824. Notes, a list of Shelley's principal writings, the order of poems, and indices to the poems and their first lines follow text.