Percy Bysshe Shelley
Carr reported only one impression of the poems of Percy Shelley (1794-1822) in his History of the QTP (1987). Only one impression has been seen.
(Last updated on 22/11/2020)
SBP-SHE1: First edition
Title: Shelley
Publisher: J.L. Carr Publisher, 27 Mill Dale Road, Kettering
Year: 198?
ISBN: None
Size: 128 x 94 mm
Pages: 16
Staples: two
Binding: blue printed matt card covers
Paper: orange
Editor: Elizabeth Farrer
Cover artist: Christopher Fiddes
Internal illustrations: two small decorations
Number in series: none stated
Colophon: sun face 1964
Telephone number: none given
Printing history: none stated
Number of other titles listed: none listed
Printed by: not stated
Rear and front covers (click to enlarge)
Inside rear cover (click to enlarge)
Content: History; He has out-soared the shadow of our night; Quotation from a letter to William Godwin; Ozymandias; Quotation from a letter to William Godwin; from Prometheus unbound; Asia replies; To Jane; Ode to the west wind; England in 1819; To a sky-lark; from a defence of poetry; To John and Maria Gisborne; from Adonias; One word is too often profaned; quotation (not ascribed); Music, when soft voices die...; quotation from letter to John and Maria Gisborne on rear cover.
Notes: This is the only impression. It is not numbered and lists no other titles, so is hard to date. It is probably from the mid 1980s. Elizabeth Farrer also edited the small book of poems by John Keats.