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Shelley (Percy Bysshe) The Cenci, first edition, modern crushed morocco, [Leghorn], 1819.

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Shelley (Percy Bysshe) The Cenci, first edition, modern crushed morocco, [Leghorn], 1819.

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Shelley (Percy Bysshe) The Cenci. A tragedy, in five acts, first edition, one of 250 copies, very slightly foxed, new endpapers, bound in modern crushed and polished morocco, gilt spine, g.e., by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, [Ashley V 69], 8vo, Italy [Leghorn], Printed for C. and J. Ollier Vere Street Bond Street, London, 1819.

⁂ First edition of the only work by Shelley in Leghorn (Livorno), in an edition of only 250 copies, in the summer of 1819; it does not seem to have been published until the following year.

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Shelley (Percy Bysshe) The Cenci, first edition, modern crushed morocco, [Leghorn], 1819.

Name: Shelley (Percy Bysshe) The Cenci, first edition, modern crushed morocco, [Leghorn], 1819.
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Price: 1500 GBP
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