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Creator:
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792–1822
Title(s):
The poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley / selected, edited, and introduced by Stephen Spender ; illustrated with wood engravings by Richard Shirley Smith.
Published/Created:
Cambridge : Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club at the University Printing House, 1971.
Physical Description:
xxvii, 312 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
MSS 17 Moss no. 91
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss
[Request]
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Related Content:
View finding aid for the Roger W. Moss Collection of manuscript, original art and printed material by and about Richard Shirley Smith
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"Designed by John Dreyfus and printed at the University Printing House in Cambridge by Brooke Crutchley, Printer to the University. Forty-six engravings [Bain nos. 165-210]. Edition of 1500 copies signed and numbered by Shirley Smith ... The Shelley project--commissioned by the Limited Editions Club in the United States in 1969 at the suggestion of John Dreyfus--was printed in 1971 and reprinted by the Heritage Press in 1974..."--Moss.
Moss, R.W. Richard Shirley Smith, 91
Bain, I. Wood engravings of Richard Shirley Smith, 165-210
Includes indexes.
BAC: British Art Center copy is no. 793 of 1500. Bound in publisher's original quarter leather and orange book cloth impressed with oval relief (60 mm) portrait of Shelley. In original slip case. A copy of The Monthly Letter of the Limited Editions Club (December, 1971, no. 450) laid in.
BAC: From the Roger W. Moss Collection of manuscript, original art and printed material by and about Richard Shirley Smith.
Subject Terms:
Crutchley, Brooke -- Printer.
English poetry -- 19th century.
Limited Editions Club -- Publisher.
University Printing House -- Printer.
Form/Genre:
Wood engravings -- 1971.
Poetry.
Contributors:
Shirley Smith, Richard, engraver.
Spender, Stephen, 1909–1995.
Moss, Roger W., 1940– former owner.
Limited Editions Club.
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