8vo. In two volumes. xv, [1], 325; x, 358pp. With a folding plate depicting a facsimile of Shelley's handwriting and a tipped-in errata slip to Vol. 1, and an 8pp publisher's advertisement catalogue to the rear of each volume. Largely unopened in original publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed and marked, spines sunned. Later armorial bookplates of Roberti Comitis de Crewe to FEPs, lightly spotted/creased. Recently dispersed from the library of West Horsley Hall.

The first edition, in original state, of Charles S. Middleton's exhaustive and authoritative life of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley; compiled from, and indeed an improvement upon, earlier biographies such as Thomas Medwin's more anecdotal memoir.

Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, marquess of Crewe, formerly Lord Houghton (1858-1945), politician, onetime secretary of state to India.