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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Male : Romantic Poet. Married Harriet Westbrook in 1811 (drowned herself in the Serpentine in 1816). He left her in 1814 after meeting Mary Godwin, and they eloped to Italy. They married in 1816. Accidentally drowned while sailing near Spezzia in Italy
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Field Place, Warnham, Horsham, Sussex

Date of Birth : 1792 Date of Death : 1822 Age : 30

Pseudonyms : Philopatria Jun

Education : Syon House School, Eton & University College, Oxford (from which he was expelled for writing a pamphlet on Atheism)
1810-1815
Original Poetry : By Victor and Cazire
(1810 C & W Phillips, Worthing) (1898 John Lane - reprint)
Zastrozzi : A Romance by P B S
(1810 G Wilkie & J Robinson, London) - with Elizabeth Shelley
Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson : Being Poems found amongst the Papers of that
Noted Female who attempted the Life of the King in 1786
(1810 J Munday, Oxford) - pamphlet
St Irvyne or, The Rosicrucian, A Romance
(1811 J J Stockdale, London
- By a Gentleman of the University of Oxford
Offered for £7,850 in 1996
The Necessity of Atheism (1811 C & W Phillips, Worthing)
[The anonymous pamphlet that had him sent down from Oxford]
Lines Addressed to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales on his Being Appointed Regent
(1811 Sherwood, Neely & Jones, London) - by 'Philopatria Jun'
An Address to the Irish People
(1812 Dublin) - pamphlet
Proposals for an Association of those Philanthropists
(1812 I Eton, Dublin)
Declaration of Rights
(1812 Dublin) - broadside
The Devil's Walk
(1812) - broadside
A Letter to Lord Ellenborough
(1812 Syle, Barnstaple) - pamphlet
Queen Mab : A Philosophical Poem
(1813 P B Shelley, London) - Ltd Ed c250
A Vindication of Natural Diet
(1813 J Callow, London)
A Refutation of Deism
(1814 Schultz & Dean, London)

1816-1820
Alastor or, The Spirit of Solitude & Other Poems
(1816 Baldwin, Craddock & Joy, London)
History of a Six Weeks' Tour Through a Part of France, Switzerland, Germany and Holland
(1817 T Hookham, London) - with Mary Shelley
A Proposal for Putting Reform to the Vote Throughout the Kingdom by the Hermit of Marlow
(1817 C & J Ollier)
"We Pity the Plumage, But Forget the Dying Bird' : An Address to the People on the Death
of the Princess Charlotte by the Hermit of Marlow
(1817 Ollier) - pamphlet
Laon and Cythna or, The Revolution of the Golden City
(1818 Sherwood, Neely & Jones, London)
Second state of the above issued as The Revolt of Islam - A poem in 12 Cantos
(1818 C & J Ollier)
Rosalind and Helen : A Modern Eclogue with Other Poems
(1819 C & J Ollier, London)
The Cenci : a Tragedy in five acts
(1819 C & J Ollier) - Ltd Ed 250 (1821 2nd Ed)
Prometheus Unbound : A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts with Other Poems
(1820 C & J Ollier)
Oedipus Tyrannus or, Swellfoot the Tyrant
(1820 J Johnston, London)

1821-1830
Queen Mab : A Philosophical Poem
(1821 W Clark, London) - 1st Trade Ed
(1820 Wm Baldwin, NY) - [Pirated Edition]
Episychidion : Verses addressed to the noble and Unfortunate Lady Emilia V
(1821 C & J Ollier) - pamphlet
Adonais : An Elegy on the Death of John Keats
(1821 PP in Pisa)
Hellas : A Lyrical Drama
(1822 C & J Ollier)
Queen Mab
(1822 R Carlile, London)
Poetical Pieces by the Late Percy Bysshe Shelley
(1823 Ollier & Simpkin & Marshall)
Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley
(1824 John & Henry L Hunt, London)
Miscellaneous and Posthumous Poems
(1826 William Benbow, London)
Adonais : An Elegy on the Death of John Keats
(1829 W Metcalfe, Cambridge) - first British Ed
The Revolt of Islam : A Poem
(1829 for John Brooks, London)
The Beauties of Percy Bysshe Shelley
(1830 Stephen Hunt, London)

1831-1840
The Masque of Anarchy : A Poem
(1832 Edward Moxon, London) - an indictment of Castlereagh
The Shelley Papers : Memoir of Percy Bysshe Shelley by T Medwin
(1833 Whittaker, Treacher & Co)
The Works
(1834 John Ascham) - 2 vols
Offered in 1998 for £380
Poetical Works
(1837 Charles Daly, London)
The Poetical Works of PBS
(Ed Mrs Shelley) (1839 Edward Moxon) - 4 vols
Offered in 1999 for £300
Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations & Fragments
(1840 Moxon) - 2 vols.
Edited by Mrs Shelley
The Poetical Works of PBS
(Ed Mrs Shelley) (1839 Edward Moxon. 7th Ed) - 3 vols

1841-1850
The Poetical Works
(1845 J S Redford, NY)
Offered in 1998 for £295

1851-1875
The Poetical Works of PBS
(Ed Mrs Shelley) (1853 Edward Moxon) - 3 vols
Shelley's Memorials from Authentic Sources : Edited by Lady Shelley
(1859 Smith Elder) (1859 Ticknor & Fields, Boston)
Relics of Shelley : Edited by Richard Garnett
(1862 Edward Moxon)
The Poetical Works
(1870 Moxon) - 2 vols
Shelley's Declaration of Rights
(1870. Np) - [one of 15 according to Wise]
Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson
(1870 J Munday, Oxford) - Facsimile of 1810 Ed

1876-1880
The Daemon of the World
(1876 PP by H Buxton Forman, London) - revised ed of Queen Mab. Ltd Ed 50
The Poetical Works of PBS
(Ed by Harry Buxton) (1876-7 Reeves & Turner) - 4 vols
The Complete Poetical Works
(1878 Moxon) - 3 vols. + memoir by W M Rossetti
Notes on Sculptures in Rome & Florence Together with a Lucianic Fragment & a Criticism on
Peacock's Poem 'Rhododaphne'
(1879 PP) - 75
Notes on Sculptures in Rome & Florence Together with a Lucianic Fragment & a Criticism on
Peacock's Poem 'Rhododaphne'
(1879 PP) - 25
The Prose Works of PBS
(Ed Harry Buxton Forman) (1880 Reeves & Turner) - 8 vols

1881-1890
The Poetical Works
(1882 Reeves & Turner) - 2 vols. Edited by H B Forman. Design by Rossetti
Review of Hogg's Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff by PBS
(1886)
Alastor, or the Spirit of Solitude : Facsimile of 1816 Ed
(1886 Reeves & Turner for Shelley Society) - 300
Hellas : A Lyrical Drama
(1886 Reeves & Turner for the Shelley Soc) - 500. Edited by T J Wise
Prologue to Hellas by PBS
(1886 PP)
The Mask of Anarchy
(1887 Reeves & Turner)
The Wandering Jew : A Poem
(Edited by Bertram Dobell) (1887 Shelley Soc) - 500
Rosalind & Helen : A Modern Eclogue with Other Poems
(1888 Shelley Soc, London)
- Facsimilie of 1819 Ed. 500
The Prose Works from Original Editions
(1888 Chatto & Windus) - 2 vols. Large paper. 100
An Address to the Irish People : reprinted from 1812 Ed
(1890 Reeves & Turner for Shelley Society) - 200
A Refutation of Deism, in a Dialogue
(1890 Progressive Publ Co, London)

1891-1900
Adonais
(1891 Clarendon Press) - Edited by William Michael
Complete Poetical Works
(1892 Riverside Press, Cambridge, Conn) - 8 vols. 250
Letters to J H Leigh Hunt
(Ed by Thomas J Wise) (1894 PP in London) - 2 vols. Ltd Ed 30
The Poetical Works
(1895 Kelmscott Press) - 3 vols. 250
Original Poetry by Victor & Cazire
(1898 John Lane) - edited by Richard Garnett
The Sensitive Plant
(1898 Aldine House, London) - Laurence Housman
The Wandering Jew : A poem
(Ed by Bertram Dobell) (Pamphlet)

1901- 1910
The Poems of PBS
(1901 Ballantyne Press) - 310. decorated by Charles Ricketts
Poems
(1901 Vale Press) - 2 vols
The Complete Poetical Works
(Ed by Thomas Hutchinson) (1904 OUP)
Prometheun Unbound
(1904 Essex House Press) - 200. Frontis by C R Ashbee
+ 20 on vellum
Letters from PBS to Elizabeth Hitchener
(1908 Bertram Dobell, London / Dodd Mead, NY)
The Letters of PBS
(Ed Roger Ingpen) (1909 Pitman) - 2 vols
Poems
(1910 Bell) - Robert Anning Bell

1911-1925
Notebooks of PBS
(1911 The Bibliophile Society, Boston)
The Sensitive Plant
(1911 Heinemann) - Charles Robinson
Poems
(1914 Doves Press, London) - 212
The Lyrical Poems and Translations
(1918 Florence Press)
A Philosophical View of Reform by PBS
(1920 OUP)
Epipsychidion
(1921 Selwyn & Blount - Shakespeare Head Press) - 500
The Dramatic Poems
(1922 Chatto & Windus, Florence Press, London)
The Lyrical Poems and Translations
(1924 C & W, Florence Press) - 4 vols

1926-1950
The Shelley Correspondence in the Bodleian Library
(Ed R H Hill) (1926 John Johnson, Oxford)
The Complete Works
(Edited by R Ingpen & W E Peck) : The Julian Edition
(1926-30 Ernest Benn & Gordina Press) - 10 vols
Offered in 1998 for £200
Letter of Elizabeth Hitchener
(1926 NY) - 155 numbered
Adonais : An Elegy on the Death of John Keats
(1927 Noel Douglas, London)
Adonais "The English replicas" : The Pisa Edition
(1927 Payson & Clarke, NY) - 100 numbered
The Shelley Notebook in the Harvard College Library
(1929 John Barnard Associates, Cambridge)
Shelley's Lost letters to Harriet
(Ed Leslie Hotson) (1930 Faber) - 950
Poems
(194 Folio Soc) - John Buckland-Wright
New Shelley Letters
(Ed W S Scott) (1948 Bodley Head)

After 1951
Shelley : Selected Poetry, Prose & Letters
(Ed A S B Glover) (1951 Nonesuch Press)
Zastrozzi : A Romance
(1955 Golden Cockerel Press) - 200. Engravings by Cecil Keeling
The Letters
(Ed Frederick L Jones) (1964 Clarendon Press, Oxford) - 2 vols
The Esdaile Notebook : A Volume of Early Poems
(Ed by K N Cameron) (1964 Faber)
The Complete Works
(Reprint of 1926-30 Julian Edition) (1965 Benn/Gordina Press)
(1965 NY) - 10 vols
Prometheus Unbound
(1965 Ltd Editions Club, NY) - John Farleigh
The Esdaile Poems : Early Minor Poems from the 'Esdaile Notebook'
(1966 Clarendon Press)
The Poems
(1971 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Richard Shirley Smith
A Selection of Shelley's Verse
(Ed Stephen Spender) (1971 Faber)
Shelley's Prose
(Ed by D Lee Clark) (1988 Fourth Estate)

READING
Recollections of Shelley, Byron & The Author by Edward John Trelawny
(1858 Moxon)
Edward Dowden : Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley
(1886 Kegan Paul) - 2 vols
Henry S Salt : Shelley's Principles - Has Time Reputed or Confirmed Them ?
(1892 Wm Reeves)
F S Ellis : A Lexical Concordance to the Poetical Works
(1892 Quaritch)
Henry S Salt : Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poet & Pioneer
(1896 Reeves & Scribner)
Shelley : The Pursuit by Richard Holmes
(1974 Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Earl R Wasserman : Shelley - A Critical Reading
(1978 John Hopkins UP £4.45)
Elma Dangerfield : Mad Shelley
(1978 Springwood Books, London £3.95)
Paul Foot : Red Shelley
(1980 Sidgwick & Jackson)
Shelley and His World by Claire Tomalin
(1992 Penguin) - pb
Steven E Jones : Shelley's Satire
(1995 N Illinois UP $30)

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Thomas Jefferson Hogg : The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley
(1858 Moxon, London) - 2 vols
The Shelley Library : An Essay in Bibliography by H Buxton Forman
(1886 Shelley Society)
A Shelley Library, Collected by Thomas James Wise
(1924 Dunedin Press, Edinburgh)
A Descriptive Catalogue of the First Editions in Book Form of the Writings of PBS by Ruth S Granniss
(1923 The Grolier Club, NY)
Reprint of above
(1974 Folcroft Library Editions)
(Ed) Kenneth Niel Cameron : Shelley and His Circle 1773-1822 (1961 London) - 2 vols
Richard Holmes : Shelley - The Pursuit
(1974 Weidenfeld & Nicolson) (1995 Flamingo £9.99)

Related Writers

John Buckland-wright
Edinburgh
Golden Cockerel Press
Laurence Housman
John Keats
Charles Robinson
Mary Shelley


See also

Robert Browning
Rigby Graham
Kelmscott Press, The
Stephen Harold Spender
John Addington, The Younger Symonds