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SHELLEY’S PROSE WORKS
VOL. I.
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In Five Volumes, crown 8vo, cloth boards, 3s. 6d. each.
THE COMPLETE WORKS
IN VERSE AND PROSE OF
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.
Edited, Prefaced, and Annotated by
RICHARD HERNE SHEPHERD.
Poetical Works, in Three Volumes.
Vol. I. Introduction by the Editor; Posthumous Fragmentsof Margaret Nicholson; Shelley’s Correspondence withStockdale; The Wandering Jew (the only complete version);Queen Mab, with the Notes; Alastor, and other Poems;Rosalind and Helen; Prometheus Unbound; Adonais, &c.
Vol. II. Laon and Cythna (as originally published, instead ofthe emasculated “Revolt of Islam”); The Cenci; Julianand Maddalo (from Shelley’s manuscript); Swellfoot theTyrant (from the copy in the Dyce Library at South Kensington);The Witch of Atlas; Epipsychidion; Hellas.
Vol. III. Posthumous Poems, published by Mrs. Shelley in1824 and 1839; The Masque of Anarchy (from Shelley’smanuscript); and other pieces not brought together in theordinary editions.
Prose Works, in Two Volumes.
Vol. I. The two Romances of Zastrozzi and St. Irvyne; theDublin and Marlow Pamphlets; A Refutation of Deism;Letters to Leigh Hunt, and some Minor Writings andFragments.
Vol. II. Essays: Letters from Abroad; Translations andFragments, edited by Mrs. Shelley, and first publishedin 1840, with the addition of some Minor Pieces of greatinterest and rarity, including one recently discovered byProfessor Dowden. With a Bibliography of Shelley, andan exhaustive Index of the Prose Works.
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THE PROSE WORKS
OF
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
FROM THE ORIGINAL EDITIONS
EDITED, PREFACED, AND ANNOTATED
BY
RICHARD HERNE SHEPHERD
IN TWO VOLUMES
VOL. I
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1897
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EDITOR’S PREFACE.
These two volumes contain a complete collectionof Shelley’s Prose