Shelley His Life and Work, Walter Edwin Peck, 1927, 2 Vols
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 of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian, academic and author. His signature to free endpapers and some pencil annotations. Please see our other listings for related works.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York. Printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge. 1927 first edition.
A good set of 2 green cloth hardbacks with printed titles to spines. Light bumping and wear and some darkening to spine. Both volumes with a little give in the spine, due to heavy weight of text blocks, but all still bound.
Text is clean and bright and in very good condition. Gilt top edge to text block.
Text in English.
Vol. I: xiii + 532pp + Plates;
Vol II: vii + 490pp + Plates.
Weight approximately 3.3kg (the set - unpacked).
Dimensions: Each volume approximately 258mm high x 175mm wide x 60mm deep.