Citation/reference: Wise, T. J. Shelley library, page 51
Citation/reference: Forman, H. B. Shelley library, number 56
Content: Price 4s. 6d.
Content: Signatures: []⁴ **⁴ [1]⁴ 2-13⁴. (w/m: [star] La Stella [w. spray]; c/m: G and C Cini [w. spray])
Content: Pforzheimer copy 1 : Shelved as *Pforz 559L 05. -- Bound in original blue-gray boards, drab paper back-strip, printed paper label, untrimmed; in dark blue hard grain morocco pull-off case, gilt back titling.
Content: Pforzheimer copy 2 : Shelved as *Pforz B-L 13. -- Formerly owned by the Irish writer John Taaffe; with his name inscribed on a preliminary blank leaf; with scattered manuscript corrections and markings. -- Bound seventh of a seven work nonce collection of Romantic poetry, each work formerly owned by Taaffe in contemporary three-quarters vellum, marbled paper boards.
Content: Pforzheimer copy 3 : With the bookplate of Ross Winans. -- An engraving of Beatrice Cenci and a facsimile of part of a PBS letter precede title page. -- Lacks the first blank leaf. -- Bound in tan straight grain morocco, gilt and blind cover and spine rules, gilt spine titling, cover edges, and turn-ins, combed marbled endpapers, by Winstanley, Manchester.
Content: Pforzheimer copy 4 : Presentation copy from Leigh Hunt to Vincent Novello. -- Inscription on front flyleaf reads in full: "To Vincent Novello from his sincere & unblushing friend Leigh Hunt" (LH 0257). -- Bound in original blue-gray boards, drab paper back-strip, remnants of printed paper spine label; housed in red cloth case, gilt title. -- Acquired by Carl H. Pforzheimer through Quaritch, August 1953.
Content: Pforzheimer copy 5 : Shelved as *Pforz 558R 18 : Shelley's own copy with his holograph corrections (PBS 0313). Corrections comprise: (1). Page 62, Shelley has added a line to the list of curses that Cenci wishes upon his daughter in Act IV scene 1: speech ending "All beholding sun, Strike in thine envy those life-darting eyes With thine own blinding beams!" has been extended with "till she become an abhorrence, and..." (2). Page 69, "Runs freely" has been changed to "Runs freelier" (3). Page 71, "He is a wicked and wrathful man" becomes "He is a wicked and a wrathful man" (4). Page 97, typographical correction, "Sweet sleep, were death like to thee" changed to "Sweet sleep, were death like thee." -- Bound in modern brown crushed morocco, single blind rule to upper and lower covers, single gilt rule to cover edges, inner dentelles consisting of a floral motif. -- Autograph note signed from Neville Rogers to J. Stevens Cox dated January 5, 1969 laid in. -- Forum Auctions, July 14, 2022.
