Percy Bysshe Shelley; Richard Garnett [Ed.] — Relics of Shelley

London, Edward Moxon & Co. 1862. First edition. Leather. A smartly rebound first edition offering a collection of Shelley"s lesser-known writings, with a presentation association from novelist and poet, Mortimer Collins. Smartly rebound in a later quarter calf binding with marbled paper boards, endpapers renewed.  First edition.  With eight pages of published advertisments to the front and two to the rear.  A collection of newly recovered poems, translations, fragments, letters and critical matter by and relating to Percy Bysshe Shelley. This copy features a presentation inscription to Ellen Crump from Mortimer Collins (1827-1876) to the half-title. Collins was a prolific poet, novelist and journalist, known for his lverse and for novels including Sweet Anne Page and Transmigration. Ellen Crump was his stepdaughter through his marriage to her mother, Susannah Crump. Edited by Richard Garnett (1835-1906) a librarian, scholar and writer who entered the British Museum in 1851 and later became Keeper of Printed Books. The volume includes the Prologue to Hellas, The Magic Plant, Orpheus, Lines Written in the Bay of Lerici, fragments of Adonais, translations from Dante and Homer, letters to Leigh Hunt, and material concerning Shelley, Harriet Shelley and Thomas Love Peacock, and much more.   Smartly rebound in a later quarter calf binding with marbled paper boards, endpapers renewed. Externally, very smart. Very slight shelf wear to extremities. Slight rubbing to boards resulting in very minor surface wear to paper. With a contemporary gift inscription from Mortimer Collins to the half-title. Internally, firmly bound. Pages characteristically age toned and clean. Slight offsetting to first and final leaves. The one or two light spots and handling marks, more so to first and last few leaves and fore edge. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .