Biography Books

A beautiful copy of this work by American artist, Emelene Abbey Dunn (1859-1929), who founded the New York Normal Art School, after studying art in...

A smart gift copy from the author to William St Clair as denoted in St Clair's own hand on the first pastedown and with accompanying Publisher's pa...

A fascinating biography of Joseph Duveen, first Baron Duveen (1869-1939). He was a British art dealer, and one of the world's most influential figu...

From the 'Americans in the Greek Revolution' series. The account of Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, an American surgeon who went to Greece when just 24 ye...

Author's presentation copy, inscribed to half title. A very uncommon book, with Worldcat only identifying 3 institutional holdings. Voyage en Grece...

Gennadeion Notes III; Athens in the Time of Lord Byron, by C.W.J. Eliot. Presentation copy from the author to William St Clair. A journal offprint;...

From the Memorial Service for British artist, William Nicholson (1872-1949) at Saint Martin-In-The -Fields church in London. Nicholson was a fine a...

Lord Byron, Early Travellers, and the Monastery at Delphi, C.W.J. Eliot. Presentation copy from the author to William St Clair. A journal offprint;...

William St Clair Slavery Research Materials - a collection of slavery reference books from his library, along with 2 personal copies of his publish...

Studies in Romanticism, Volume 16, Number 4, Fall 1977. This issue with articles on Marxism and Romanticism. With various contributors. Provenance;...

Maria Gisborne & Edward E. Williams; Shelley's Friends; Their Journals and Letters. Edited by Frederick L. Jones.  Provenance; from the library...

Shelley and His World, by Claire Tomalin. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian, academic and ...

The Shelleys of Field Place; The Story of the Family and their Estates, by Susan Cabell Djabri, with Annabelle F. Hughes and Jeremy Knight. SOLD Pr...

Mad Shelley, A Dramatic Life in Five Acts, by Elma Dangerfield.  Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British h...

Collection of Romantic Period Offprints from William St Clair's library - mainly author signed and inscribed. Comprises: SOLD Keats-Shelley Journal...

Shelley in England; New Facts and Letters from the Shelley-Whitton Papers. With Illustrations and Facsimiles. By Roger Ingpen. Volume I. Provenance...

The Godwins and the Shelleys; The Biography of a Family, by William St Clair. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 202...

The Shelley Papers; Memoir of Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Original poems and Papers by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Now First Collected. By T. Medwin, Esq. ...

The Last Days of Percy Bysshe Shelley; New Details from Unpublished Documents, by Dr. Guido Biagi. Provenance; from the library of the late William...

Shelley on Love; An Anthology edited by Richard Holmes. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian,...

Shelley; His Life and Work, by Walter Edwin Peck. Volume I: 1792-1817 and Volume II: 1817-1822. 2 Volume set complete. Provenance; from the library...

Shelley by Newman Ivey White. 2 Volume set complete. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian, ac...

Queen Mab, by Percy Bysshe Shelley; With Notes. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian, academi...

Queen Mab; 1813, by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian, academic and ...

Original Poetry by Victor & Cazire, (Percy Bysshe Shelley & Elizabeth Shelley). Edited by Richard Garnett, C.B., LL.D. The book contains a ...

A collection of 2 books related to Iona and Peter Opie:  A Nursery Companion; Provided by Iona and Peter Opie, Oxford University Press, 1980 first ...

Rambles & Studies in Greece, by J.P. Mahaffy. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian, acade...

Byron and the Shelleys; The Story of a Friendship, by Jane Blumberg. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), Briti...

Some English Philhellenes, by Z.D. Ferriman, Author of "Home Life in Hellas,", Turkey and the Turks," etc. 8 Volume Set, comprising: I: Frank Abney...

Byron's "Corbeau Blanc", The Life and Letters of Lady Melborne. Edited by Jonathan David Gross, Presentation copy to William St Clair. Provenance; ...

Erichthonius and The Three Daughters of Cecrops, by Benjamin Powell, A.B., A.M. A Thesis presented to the University Faculty of Cornell university ...

Thucydides Mythistoricus, by Francis Macdonald Cornford, Fellow and Lecturer of Trinity College, Cambridge. SOLD Provenance; from the library of th...

Salzburg Studies in English Literature Under the Direction of Professor Erwin A. Sturzl: Romantic Reassessment editor: Dr. James Hogg; 110; The Bar...

Les Brienne de Lecce et D'Athenes; Histoire D'Une Des Grandes Familles de la Feodalite Francaise (1200-1356), par Le Cte. Fernand De Sassenay (The ...

William Hone; His Life and Times, by Frederick Wm. Hackwood. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British histo...

England in 1819; The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism, by James Chandler. Provenance; from the library of the late...

The Clairmont Correspondence; Letters of Claire Clairmont, Charles Clairmont, and Fanny Imlay Godwin; Volume 1, 1808-1834 & Volume 2, 1835-1879...

Letters to John Hasfeld 1841-1846, George Barrow. Edited by Angus M. Fraser - signed by him to William St Clair, along with correspondence letter. ...

Froude's Life of Carlyle. Abridged and Edited by John Clubbe. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British hist...

The Life of William Hazlitt, by P.P. Howe, with an Introduction by Frank Swinnerton. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (193...

Hazlitt in Love; A Fatal Attachment, Jon Cook. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian, academic...

Hazlitt: A Life, From Winterslow to Frith Street, by Stanley Jones. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), Britis...

Letters of Edward Dowden and his Correspondents. Edited by Elizabeth D. Dowen and Hilda M. Dowden. Also included with the book is an autographed ca...

History of The Society of Dilettanti. Compiled by Lionel Cust, M.A., Director of the National Portrait Gallery and edited by Sidney Colvin, M.A., K...

The Keats Circle; Letters and Papers 1816-1878. Edited by Hyder Edward Rollins, 2 Vol. Boxed Set. Provenance; from the library of the late William ...

Letters About Shelley; Interchanged by Three Friends – Edward Dowden, Richard Garnett and W. Michael Rossetti. Edited, with an Introduction by R.S....

A Norton Critical edition: Shelley's Poetry and Prose; Authorative Texts Criticism. Selected and Edited by Donald H. Reiman, The Carl H. Pforzheime...

After Shelley; The Letters of Thomas Jefferson Hogg to Jane Williams. Edited with a Biographical Introduction by Sylva Norman. Provenance; from the...