Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Sensitive Plant [with dust jacket and box] - 1911

A very RARE and beautiful book...."The Sensitive Plant" ....Introduction by Edmund Gosse. 18 tipped-in color plates by Charles Robinson, protected with tissue. Philadelphia: Lippincott & London: Heinemann , [1911].
The enchanting illustrations show a distinct Art Nouveau/Pre-Raphaelite influence. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrator Charles Robinson (1870-1937) was a prolific British book illustrator. He illustrated many fairy tales and children's books throughout his career. Shelley's poem The Sensitive Plant was first published in 1820 in Prometheus Bound & Other Poems. Printed in England at the Ballantyne Press, London. Heavy smooth stock paper. Bound in original full green cloth with elaborate gilt design & lettering to front board & spine, top edge gilt, bottom edge untrimmed, in publisher's brown pictorial DUSTJACKET with only light wear and tiny losses on margins.
No more tastefully illustrated book of verse could be desired than the elaborately artistic edition of Shelley's Sensitive Plant, edited by Mr. Edmund Gosse, illustrated with much richness of coloring and gracefulness of design by Mr. Charles Robinson. The illustrations, large and small, accompanying the slender thread of text, form the conspicuous feature of the book, and make it one of the most sumptuous gift volumes of the year. The cover design is a thing of beauty" -- The Dial 1911. Inside very light spots of foxing in some Paeges but overall clean and complete, illustrations FINE. ONLY COPY selling worldwide with box!!!!! Box with wear around edges and corners, light losses on pictorial front box image.
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