Alastor or The Spirit of Solitude and Other Poems. A Facsimile Reprint of the Original Edition First Published in 1816. Edited by Bertram Dobell (The Shelley Society's Publications, Second Series. No. 3) SIGNED BY EDITOR

SHELLEY, Percy Byshe (ed. Bertram Dobell)

Edité par Published for the Shelley Society by Reeves and Turner, 1886

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~Original blue printed boards, slight scuffing to spine, minor wear to corners and ends of spine. Page edges deckled. Light browning to endpages, but not title page. Last 3pp. are Shelley Society publication list. Limited to 300 copies. Signed by editor: 'Dr. Tebb. From Bertram Dobell. June 21 / 95'. Printed on laid paper. Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), bookseller and literary scholar. Dobell, a largely self-taught bibliophile and scholar whose first job was as a baker's errand boy, became the proprietor of two bookshops on Charing Cross Road, ' held in high esteem by the leading bibliophiles of his day' (ODNB). Dobell was an accomplished and prolific critic and editor, chiefly remembered for correctly identifying the rediscovered manuscripts of Poetical Works and Centuries of Meditation as the work of Thomas Traherne. The 'Dr. Tebb' of Dobell's dedicatory inscription in this volume is almost certainly Dr. Albert Edward Tebb (c.1864-1943), a medical doctor who attended many leading literary and artistic figures in late 19th- and early 20th-century London, including Joseph Conrad and Ford Maddox Ford. Tebb was 'a knowledgeable collector of avant-garde prints and first editions, a serious violinist of apparently modest skill, and an early advocate and practitioner of socialized medicine' (Bock, Martin. '"What Has Happened To Poor Tebb?": A Biographical Sketch of Conrad's Physician.' The Conradian, vol. 23, no. 1, 1998, p. 2). Tebb, like Dobell an established if peripheral figure on the London literary scene, would most likely have frequented Dobell's bookshops and is a believable purchaser of this lovingly produced facsimile edition of Shelley's first major poem, a 'enigmatic and haunting study of longing, desire, and what in the 'Preface' [Shelley] calls 'self-centred seclusion'' (ODNB). ~Robust packaging. All UK orders trackable, others on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. 1st edn. Hardback. Size: xlvi, vi, (2), 101, (2), 3pp.

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• Titre: Alastor or The Spirit of Solitude and Other Poems. A Facsimile Reprint of the Original Edition First Published in 1816. Edited by Bertram Dobell (The Shelley Society's Publications, Second Series. No. 3) SIGNED BY EDITOR
• Éditeur: Published for the Shelley Society by Reeves and Turner
• Date de parution: 1886
• Reliure: Hardback
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de l'article: Very Good
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