SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851).Valperga: or, The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca. London: G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1823. 12° (180 x 104mm). (Light even browning, title and prelims to vol. I stained at corners, title also tipped onto endpaper and slightly short at foremargin, I4 of vol. III with long repaired tear affecting text on recto.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, rubbed, inner hinges a little weak); modern cloth box. Provenance: Lewis Sherrill Bigelow (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of this historical novel, begun in Marlow in 1817 and published for the benefit of the author's father, William Godwin, the year after her husband's death. Block p. 213; Summers A Gothic Bibliography p. 541.
SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851).Valperga: or, The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca. London: G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1823. 12° (180 x 104mm). (Light even browning, title and prelims to vol. I stained at corners, title also tipped onto endpaper and slightly short at foremargin, I4 of vol. III with long repaired tear affecting text on recto.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, rubbed, inner hinges a little weak); modern cloth box. Provenance: Lewis Sherrill Bigelow (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of this historical novel, begun in Marlow in 1817 and published for the benefit of the author's father, William Godwin, the year after her husband's death. Block p. 213; Summers A Gothic Bibliography p. 541.
