# The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (ed. Hutchinson, 1914)/Bibliographical List of Editions

A LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL EDITIONS OF SHELLEY'S POETICAL WORKS,
SHOWING THE VARIOUS PRINTED SOURCES OF THE CONTENTS OF THIS EDITION
I.
(1) Original Poetry; | By | Victor and Cazire. | Call it not vain:—they do not err, | Who say, that, when the poet dies, | Mute Nature mourns her worshipper. | Lay of the Last Minstrel. | Worthing | Printed by C. and W. Phillips, | for the Authors; | And sold by J. J. Stockdale, 41, Pall-Mall, | And all other Booksellers. | 1810.
​(2) Original | Poetry | By | Victor & Cazire [Percy Bysshe Shelley | & Elizabeth Shelley] | Edited by | Richard Garnett | C.B., LL.D. | Published by | John Lane, at the Sign | of the Bodley Head in | London and New York | MDCCCXCVIII.
II.
Posthumous Fragments | of | Margaret Nicholson; | Being Poems Found Amongst the Papers of that | Noted Female who attempted the Life | of the King in 1786. | Edited by | John Fitz-Victor. | Oxford: | Printed and sold by J. Munday | 1810.
III.
St.Irvyne; | or, | The Rosicrucian. | A Romance. | By | A Gentleman | of the University of Oxford. | London: | Printed for J. J. Stockdale, | 41, Pall Mall. | 1811.
IV.
The Devil's Walk; a Ballad. Printed as a broadside, 1812.
V.
Queen Mab; | a | Philosophical Poem: | with Notes. | By | Percy Bysshe Shelley. | Ecrasez l'Infame! | Correspondance de Voltaire. | Avia Pieridum peragro loca, nullius ante | Trita solo; iuvat integros accedere fonteis; | Atque haurire: iuratque (sic) novos decerpere flores. | Unde prius nulli velarint tempora musae. | Primum quod magnis doceo de rebus; et arctis | Religionum animos nodis exsolvere pergo. | Lucret. lib. iv. | Δος που στῶ καὶ κοσμον κινησω. | Archimedes. | London: | Printed by P. B. Shelley, | 23, Chapel Street, Grosvenor Square. | 1813.
VI.
Alastor; | or, | The Spirit of Solitude: | and Other Poems. | By | Percy Bysshe Shelley | London | Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, Pater-|noster Row; and Carpenter and Son, | Old Bond Street: | By S. Hamilton, Weybridge, Surrey | 1816.
VII.
(1) Laon and Cythna; | or, | The Revolution | of | the Golden City: | A Vision of the Nineteenth Century. | In the Stanza of Spenser. | By | Percy B. Shelley. | Δος που στω και κοσμον κινησω | Archimedes. | London: | Printed for Sherwood, Neely, & Jones, Paternoster-|Row; and C. and J. Ollier, Welbeck-Street: | By B. M'Millan, Bow-Street, Covent-Garden. | 1818.
(2) The | Revolt of Islam; | A Poem, | in Twelve Cantos. | By | Percy Bysshe Shelley. | London: | Printed for C. and J. Ollier, Welbeck-Street; | By B. M'Millan, Bow-Street, Covent-Garden. | 1818.
(3) A few copies of The Revolt of Islam bear date 1817 instead of 1818.
(4) 'The same sheets were used again in 1829 with a third title-page similar to the foregoing [2], but with the imprint "London: | Printed for John Brooks, | 421 Oxford-Street. | 1829."' (H. Buxton Forman, C.B.: The Shelley Library, p. 73.)
(5) 'Copies of the 1829 issue of The Revolt of Islam not infrequently occur with Laon and Cythna text. (Ibid., p. 73.)
VIII.
Rosalind and Helen, | A Modern Eclogue; | With Other Poems: | By | Percy Bysshe Shelley. | London: | Printed for C. and J. Ollier, | Vere Street, Bond Street. | 1819.
IX.
(1) The Cenci. | A Tragedy, | In Five Acts. | By Percy B. Shelley. | Italy. | Printed for C. and J. Ollier, | Vere Street, Bond Street. | London. | 1819.
(2) The Cenci | A Tragedy | In Five Acts | By | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Second Edition | London | C. and J. Ollier Vere Street Bond Street | 1821.
X.
Prometheus Unbound | A Lyrical Drama | In Four Acts | With Other Poems | By | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Audisne haec, Amphiarae, sub terram abdite? | London | C. and J. Ollier Vere Street Bond Street | 1820.
XI.
Oedipus Tyrannus; | or, | Swellfoot The Tyrant. | A Tragedy. | In Two Acts. | Translated from the Original Doric. | ———Choose Reform or civil-war, | When thro' thy streets, instead of hare with dogs, | A Consort-Queen shall hunt a King with hogs, | Riding on the IONIAN MINOTAUR. | London: | Published for the Author, | By J. Johnston, 98, Cheapside, and sold by | all booksellers. | 1820.
XII.
Epipsychidion | Verses Addressed to the Noble | And Unfortunate Lady | Emilia V——— | Now Imprisoned in the Convent of ——— | L' anima amante si slancia fuori del creato, e si crea nel infinito | un Mondo tutto per essa, diverso assai da questo oscuro e pauroso | baratro. Her Own Words. | London | C. and J. Ollier Vere Street Bond Street | MDCCCXXI.
XIII.
(1) Adonais | An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, | Author of Endymion, Hyperion etc. | By | Percy B. Shelley | Αστήρ τρὶω μὲν ἐλαμπες ενι ζῶοισιν εῶος. | Νυν δε θανῶν λαμπεις ἔσπερος εν φθίμενοις. | Plato. | Pisa | With the Types of Didot | MDCCCXXI.
(2) Adonais. | An Elegy | on the | Death of John Keats, | Author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc. | By | Percy B. Shelley. | [Motto as in (1)] Cambridge: | Printed by W. Metcalfe, | and sold by Messrs. Gee & Bridges, Market-Hill. | MDCCCXXIX.
XIV.
Hellas | A Lyrical Drama | By | Percy B. Shelley | ΜΑΝΤΙΣ ΕΙΜ᾽ ΕΣΘΛΩΝ ἈΓΩΝΩΝ | Oedip. Colon. | London | Charles and James Ollier Vere Street | Bond Street | MDCCCXXII. (The last work issued in Shelley's lifetime.)
XV.
Posthumous Poems | of | Percy Bysshe Shelley. | In nobil sangue vita umile e queta, | Ed in alto intelletto un puro core; | Frutto senile in sul giovenil fiore, | E in aspetto pensoso anima lieta. | Petrarca. | ​London, 1824: | Printed for John and Henry L. Hunt, | Tavistock Street, Covent Garden. (Edited by Mrs. Shelley.)
XVI.
The | Masque of Anarchy. | A Poem. | By Percy Bysshe Shelley. Now first published, with a Preface | by Leigh Hunt. | Hope is Strong; | Justice and Truth their winged child have found. | Revolt of Islam. | London: | Edward Moxon, 64, New Bond Street. | 1832.
XVII.
The Shelley Papers | Memoir | of | Percy Bysshe Shelley | By T. Medwin, Esq. | And | Original Poems and Papers | By Percy Bysshe Shelley, | Now first collected, | London: | Whittaker, Treacher, & Co. | 1833.
(The Poems occupy pp. 109-126.)
XVIII.
The | Poetical Works | of | Percy Bysshe Shelley. | Edited | by Mrs Shelley. | Lui non trov' io, ma suoi santi vestigi | Tutti rivolti alla superna strada | Veggio, lunge da' laghi averni e stigi.—Petrarca. | In Four Volumes. | Vol. I. [II. III. IV.] | London: | Edward Moxon, Dover Street. | MDCCCXXXIX.
XIX.
(1) The | Poetical Works | of | Percy Bysshe Shelley: | [Vignette of Shelley's Tomb.] London. | Edward Moxon, Dover Street. | 1839.
(This is the engraved title-page. The printed title-page runs:—)
(2) The | Poetical Works | of | Percy Bysshe Shelley. | Edited | By Mrs. Shelley. | [Motto from Petrarch as in XVIII.] | London: | Edward Moxon, Dover Street. | M.DCCC.XL.
(Large octavo, printed in double columns. The Dedication is dated 11th November, 1839.)
XX.
Essays, | Letters from Abroad, | Translations and Fragments, | By | Percy Bysshe Shelley. | Edited | By Mrs. Shelley. | [Long prose motto translated from Schiller] | In Two Volumes. | Vol. I. [II.] | London: | Edward Moxon, Dover Street. | MDCCCXL.
XXI.
Relics of Shelley. | Edited by | Richard Garnett. | [Lines 20-24 of To Jane: 'The keen stars,' &c] | London: | Edward Moxon & Co., Dover Street. | 1862.
XXII.
The | Poetical Works | of | Percy Bysshe Shelley: | Including Various Additional Pieces | From MS. and Other Sources. | The Text carefully revised, with Notes and | A Memoir, | By William Michael Rossetti. | Vol. I [II.] | [Moxon's Device.] | London: | E. Moxon, Son, & Co., 44 Dover Street, W. | 1870.
XXIII.
The Daemon of the World | By | Percy Bysshe Shelley | The First Part | as published in 1816 with Alastor | The Second Part | Deciphered and now First Printed from his own Manuscript | Revision and Interpolations in the Newly Discovered | Copy of Queen Mab | London | Privately printed by H. Buxton Forman | 38 Marlborough Hill | 1876.
XXIV.
The Poetical Works | of | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edited by | Harry Buxton Forman | In Four Volumes | Volume I. [II. III. IV.] London | Reeves and Turner 196 Strand | 1876.
XXV.
The Complete | Poetical Works | of | Percy Bysshe Shelley. | The Text carefully revised with Notes and | A Memoir, | by | William Michael Rossetti. | In Three Volumes. | Vol. I. [II. III.] London: | E. Moxon, Son, And Co., | Dorset Buildings, Salisbury Square, E.C. | 1878.
XXVI.
The Poetical Works | of Percy Bysshe Shelley | Given from His Own Editions and Other Authentic Sources | Collated with many Manuscripts and with all Editions of Authority | Together with Prefaces and Notes | His Poetical Translations and Fragments | and an Appendix of | Juvenilia | [Publisher's Device.] Edited by Harry Buxton Forman | In Two Volumes. | Volume I. [II.] London | Reeves and Turner, 196, Strand | 1882.
XXVII.
The | Poetical Works | of | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edited by | Edward Dowden | London | Macmillan and Co., Limited | New York: The Macmillan Company | 1900.
XXVIII.
The Poetical Works of | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edited with a Memoir by | H. Buxton Forman | In Five Volumes | [Publisher's Device.] Vol. I. [II. III. IV. V] London | George Bell and Sons | 1892.
XXIX.
The | Complete Poetical Works | of | Percy Bysshe Shelley | The Text newly collated and revised | and Edited with a Memoir and Notes | By George Edward Woodberry | Centenary Edition | In Four Volumes | Volume I. [II. III. IV.] [Publisher's Device.] London | Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co. | Limited | 1893.
XXX.
An Examination of the | Shelley Manuscripts | In the Bodleian Library | Being a collation thereof with the printed | texts, resulting in the publication of | several long fragments hitherto unknown, | and the introduction of many improved | readings into Prometheus Unbound, and | other poems, by | C. D. Locock, B.A. | Oxford | At the Clarendon Press | 1903.
The early poems from the Esdaile MS. book, which are included in this edition by the kind permission of the owner of the volume, Charles E. J. Esdaile, Esq., appeared for the first time in Professor Dowden's Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, published in the year 1887.
One poem from the same volume, entitled The Wandering Jew's Soliloquy, was printed in one of the Shelley Society Publications (Second Series, No. 12), a reprint of The Wandering Jew, edited by Mr. Bertram Dobell, in 1887.