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Half-Leather. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. Brown 1/2 morocco edged in gilt, brown pebbled cloth, spine panels lettered/decorated in gilt with 5 compartments, 4 raised bands, all text block edges in gilt. All volumes fairly uniform VG condition, showing mild rubbing to spine extremities and corners, some rubbing to joints and/or spine bands. Vol. IV shows thin strip of loss at head of spine and evidence of repair along front joint. 404,32 + 367,32 + 432,32 + 458,48 pp. Complete but apparently bound in the incorrect order, with Vol. IV contents consisting of the Second Series (see listing below); Vol. I imprint is Hotten, II-IV Chatto and Windus (with Vol. II note specifying them as successor to Hotten), Vols. I and II undated, Vols. III and IV dated 1875 on lower main title. (I) First Series: Queen Mab and the Early Poems; (II) Third Series: Posthumous Poems, The Masque of Anarchy, The Wandering Jew, The Shelley Papers, Notes to Queen Mab and Hellas; (III) Fourth Series: Zastrozzi, St. Irvyne or the Rosicrucian, Dublin and Marlow Pamphlets, Refutation of Deism, Miscellaneous Letters, The Shelley Papers; (IV) Second Series: Laon and Cythna the Cenci and Later Poems. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Book.…