8vo. xliv, 708pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece of the author. Contemporary blind-ruled red morocco, lettered in gilt to spine, with further gilt-tooling to marbled endpapers. A.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Inked ownership inscription of Alice Evelyn Letchford to first blank fly-leaf. Endpapers a touch browned. A fine copy.

The second edition, handsomely bound and in fine state, of Edward Dowden's (1843 – 1913) edited works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Dowden's early biography of the Romatic poet, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1886), was widely considered his most successful historical work to date.