Walter Sidney Scott Editor (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Good to very good condition. Ink underlining and margin notes on first 68 pages. Spine tips are bumped and rubbed. Spine is faded. 87 pages with ten illustrations.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Ed. Hardback, quarter morocco with cloth covered boards. 25.5 x 20cm. 79pp. Frontis and additional portrait. No. 146 of a limited edition of only 500 copies. Gift message to front free end-papers, tape marks to free end-papers. Minor spotting to contents.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Limited. Hardback, original two tone cloth, gilt decoration. 25 x 16cm. 86pp, [2]. With 14 hand-coloured drawings by Lettice Sandford. Number 89 of 300 copies. Original prospectus loosely inserted. Spine faded, slight wear to extremities. Contents clean.

large 8vo. quarter red morocco, top edge gilt, 4 raised bands with two golden cockerels. (iv), 84 pages. Being the Relations between Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harriet Shelley, Mary Shelley, and Thomas Jefferson Hogg; As Shown in Letters Between Them, Now Published for the First Time. Printed in an edition limited to 500 numbered copies, of which this is one of 450 copies bound thus. Only the slightest hint of wear to the spine, else a near fine copy. Printed on Arnold's mould-made paper in Perpetua type. Item number 161 in the Press's third Bibliography, Cockalorum. Second volume of Trilogy. Edited and with an introduction by Walter Sidney Scott. Lovely frontispiece portrait of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Print is very crisp and striking. quarter red morocco, top edge gilt, 4 raised bands with two golden cockerels. Golden Cockerel Press (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. This is limited edition number 279 of 500 copies produced, bound in quarter leather with raised bands and gold gilt to the spine and housed in its own handsome, handmade slipcase. The boards are a little rubbed and edge worn, with some slight bubbling in the cloth of the boards. Despite this, the boards are strong and sturdy. Internally, there is some faint tanning around the edges throughout, but there are no other markings or inscriptions, and the pages within are neat and complete. Securely bound. JK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

[Together with:] Scott, Walter Sidney, editor. Shelley at Oxford. the Early Correspondence of P. B. Shelley with his friend T.J. Hogg, together with letters of Mary Shelley and T.L. Peacock, and a hitherto unpublished prose fragment by Shelley. [London:] The Golden Cockerel Press, 1944. Octavo. 79 pp. Four portraits. Bound as the previous volume. Very good. First edition. One of 500 copies. [and:] Scott, Walter Sidney, ed. Harriet & Mary. Being the Relations Between Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harriet Shelley, Mary Shelley, and Thomas Jefferson Hogg, As Shown in Letters Between Them Now Published for the First Time. [London:] The Golden Cockerel Press, 1944. Octavo. 84 pp. Frontisportrait. Bound as above. Very good.First edition. One of 500 copies. Cockalorum 158, 161, 163. NCBEL 317. Octavo. 87 pp. Frontisportrait. Half reddish-brown morocco, raised bands, gilt spine, dark blue-green cloth boards. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Light shelfwear. Very good. First edition. One of 350 copies. The letters in these volumes were in the possession of the editorÕs wife, Peggy, who was the great niece of Thomas Jefferson Hogg. They contain correspondence between Shelley and his biographer and boon companion, Hogg. Particularly significant are the letters concerning HoggÕs ÒrelationsÓ with ShelleyÕs wives, Harriet and Mary. ScottÕs commentary on these letters clearly reveals his purpose (perhaps imperfectly realized) of clearing Hogg of the charge traditionally levelled at him, that he tried to seduce both women.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. One 50 copies bound in full niger morocco, t.e.g., by Leighton-Straker, with collotypes of six letters added, signed by Scott. A few scratches to the binding. Signed by Author(s).