The Real Shelley; New Views on the Poet's Life, John Cordy Jeaffreson, 2 Vols, 1885

The Real Shelley; New Views on the Poet's Life, by John Cordy Jeaffreson. In Two Volumes.

Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian, academic and author. Signature of William St Clair to first free endpaper. No additional annotations. Please see our other listings for related works. 

Published by Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, London, 1885. First edition.

A good set of brown cloth hardbacks with blind stamped cover design and gilt titles to spine. Covers are rubbed and bumped with wear to head and tail of spine. There is some give in the spines. Some cracking to endpapers and some spotting. Small bookseller's sticker to first pastedown.

Text is clean and bright with age toning to edge of text block. Some showthrough to webbing between some text gatherings. Imperfect, but good reading copies of an uncommon first edition.

Text in English.

Vol I: xi + 435pp.

Vol II: xiv + 478pp.

Weight approximately 2.01g (the set - unpacked).

Approx Dimensions: 

Each volume approximately 230mm high x 152mm wide x 40-43mm deep.