SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Queen Mab. (1922 - SECOND EDITION - CANCEL ISSUE)

AUTHOR: SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe.

TITLE: Queen Mab.

PUBLISHER: London: R. Carlile, 1822,

DESCRIPTION: SECOND EDITION CANCEL ISSUE. 1 vol., 8-9/16" X 5-3/8", 182pp.,(I), title-page tipped onto a stub, final leaf containing dedication poem "To Harriet" and the W. Clark's imprint to page 182, Clark's imprint was deliberately scraped away in some copies or covered over (see note), bound in contemporary 1/4 dark blue calf, gilt decorated spine, gilt lettered green morocco spine label, marbled pastedowns and endpapers.

CONDITION: No previous ownership markings, inscriptions, or bookplate, internally clean and bright, inner and outer hinges fine, head and foot of spine fine, A VERY GOOD COPY.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The second published edition, a reissue of the W. Clark sheets of 1821 by the radical publisher Richard Carlile, who would have sympathized with the poem's attacks on dogma and on the state of society. For publishing the 1821 edition the publisher W. Clark was sentenced to four month's imprisonment. Some copies of Clark's edition reproduce the original text, others omit the dedication to Harriet. Although Shelley's name appears on the title-page he denied any part in the production. After Clark's imprisonment the remaining sheets then fell into the hands of Carlile, who reissued them with a new tipped in title page, as in this copy, and his imprint pasted over or mutilated, not in this copy, making this the earliest obtainable edition/issue.