8 volumes, 8vo (222 x 140 mm). 8 portrait frontispieces, large folding table. Modern quarter morocco.

FIRST EDITION edited by Harry Buxton Forman. "It would be difficult indeed to over-estimate the gains which have accrued to the lovers of Shelley from the strenuous labours of Mr. Harry Buxton Forman, C.B. He too has enlarged the body of Shelley's poetry... He has vindicated the authenticity of the text in many places, while in many others he has succeeded, with the aid of manuscripts, in restoring it. His untiring industry in research, his wide bibliographical knowledge and experience, above all, his accuracy, as invariable as it is minute, have combined to make him, in the words of Professor Dowden, 'our chief living authority on all that relates to Shelley's writings'" (Oxford Edition of The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley).