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Auction: 16043 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 32

Documents
Percy Bysshe Shelley
1818 (1 January) entire autograph letter to his bankers, Messrs Brookes & co in London, "Gentlemen. Be so good as to send me Fifty Pounds which place to my account ...", and signed, "Percy Bysshe Shelley". The address panel with Marlow mileage mark and London arrival c.d.s., rated "7" in black ink. There is a seal tear from removal of waxed seal; one neat repair at top and several slight chips along margin.In mount.


Ten days later, Shelley’s "Ozymandias" appeared in "The Examiner". He would leave England for the last time about three months later in March 1818. Rare. Photo

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 – 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets, and is regarded by some as among the finest lyric, as well as epic, poets in the English language.

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