1910s Illustrated Quarto, Percy Bysshe Shelley's the Sensitive Plant - 1 Book

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe [Charles Robinson, illustrator]. The Sensitive Plant.

London: William Heinemann / Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co. [circa 1911], first … Read more Shelley, Percy Bysshe [Charles Robinson, illustrator]. The Sensitive Plant.

London: William Heinemann / Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co. [circa 1911], first edition. 4to; 216 pp. Green boards, lightly rubbed tips, pictorially stamped in gilt, 18 tipped-in colour plates, tissue guarded, illustrations, pictorial end papers and jacket, superficial tear at front gutter, light damp stained and soiled covers with (5) .25-.5 inch short tears at folds. Printed at the Ballantyne Press. Very good + in a very good dust jacket.

A beautifully presented edition with distinctive pre-Raphaelite inspiration, quite rare in the original dust jacket. See less