Receipted Invoice from Sotheby & Co. to T. J. Wise for a copy of P. B. Shelley, Proposals for An Association of those Philanthropists, etc., 1812, purchased by T. J. Wise for £900 from Dr. Brendan MacCarthy by private treaty through Sotheby's; 15 Oct... 15 Oct 1931

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Receipted Invoice from Sotheby & Co. to T. J. Wise for a copy of P. B. Shelley, Proposals for An Association of those Philanthropists, etc., 1812, purchased by T. J. Wise for £900 from Dr. Brendan MacCarthy by private treaty through Sotheby's; 15 Oct... 15 Oct 1931

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Sotheby and Co (auctioneers of London : active 1501-2001)

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Wise, Thomas James, book collector

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822

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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), poet, was born at Field Place, Warnham, on 4 August 1792, and attended the Sion House academy at Brentford, and then Eton. He entered University College, Oxford, in 1810, but was sent down the following year after writing the pamphlet The necessity of atheism . He eloped to Scotland with Harriet Westbrook, whom he married in Edinburgh in 1811. Shelley spent 1812 in Ireland, addressing meetings and writing pamphlets. In 1814 he left his wife and fled to the conti...