Harry Buxton Forman volumes, ca. 1892-1907.

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Harry Buxton Forman volumes, ca. 1892-1907.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82181516

Draft of Forman's "Memoir of Shelley" for Vol. I of his 1892 Aldine edition of The poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, published by George Bell and Sons; drafts of the prefaces for each volume; and his corrections and annotations for this edition, made on the printed leaves of the 1882 edition (published by Reeves and Turner), and on interleaved sheets. Bound together in five volumes.

5 volumes ; 20 cm.

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Forman, H. Buxton (Harry Buxton), 1842-1917

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The controversial bibliographer Harry Buxton Forman was best known for his work on Shelley, Keats, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, as well as for collaborating with Thomas J. Wise (1859-1937) in the creation of numerous literary forgeries. From the description of Harry Buxton Forman volumes, ca. 1892-1907. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 82181516 Harry Buxton Forman, English bibliographer and forger. He wrote a great deal of critical and bibliographic literary...

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...