PERCY SHELLEY, POET AND PIONEER

Third edition. Publisher's original red cloth with titles in black to the upper board and spine, in dustwrapper. Fore-edge and bottom edge untrimmed, some pages unopened. Illustrated with a black and white portrait frontispiece. A near fine copy, the binding square, firm and exceptionally bright with a small bump to the head of the spine. The contents with the usual light scattered foxing to the edges of the textblock are otherwise clean throughout and remain free from any previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the very good or better dustwrapper which has some toning to the spine, a little wear to spine ends and a very small hole to the rear panel. Not price-clipped. An excellent example.

An exploration of Shelley's life, work, ideas and influence, with a particular focus on his radical political and dietary beliefs by Henry Stephens Salt (1851-1939), the socialist, pacifist, pioneering author on vegetarianism and animal rights and noted literary scholar. One of the leading humanitarian thinkers and activists of his age, Salt counted William Morris, Leo Tolstoy, Edward Carpenter, Peter Kropotkin, George Bernard Shaw and Kier Hardie amongst his circle of friends. His numerous works on his intellectual heroes Percy Shelley and Henry David Thoreau were some of his most successful contemporary publications. The present work, first published in 1896, forms his most comprehensive study of Shelley. Scarce in the dustwrapper.