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Call Number:
MSS 17
Holdings:
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Creator:
Spender, Stephen, 1909–1995
Title(s):
The Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Selected, edited, and introduced by Stephen Spender Illustrated with wood engravings by Richard Shirley Smith. Norwalk, CT, Heritage Press, 1974.
Date:
1974
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Series:
Series II: Publications Designed or Illustrated by Richard Shirley Smith
Part of Collection:
volume Moss no. 93
Provenance:
Gift of Roger W. Moss, 2011
Conditions Governing Access:
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use:
Copyright Undetermined

The collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Archives Department.
Scope and Content:
Designed by John Dreyfus in 13 point monotype Bembo. Reprint of the Limited Editions Club edition of 1971. Bound in blue book cloth, front cover die-stamped with 55 x 44 mm stylized papyrus plant motif; endpapers printed with enlarged detail of Shirley Smith's 'Flowery Wreath' [Bain no. 180]. Slip case. A copy of the Heritage Club Sandglass describing The Poems of Shelley laid in. There is a variant of the Heritage Press edition binding with plain white endpapers and boards printed with an enlarged detail in four-side bleed of 'Moths and Moon' [Bain no. 192]. There is no mention that this is a reprint of the Limited Editions Club edition. A record for this item is also available in the <extref xlink:type="simple" xlink:actuate="onRequest" xlink:show="new" xlink:href="http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/10426286">Yale University Library Catalog.</extref>
Physical Description:
Pp. [1-2] [i-iv] v-xxvi [xxvii-xxviii] [1-2] 3-313 [314] ; 267 x 170 mm
Finding Aid Title:
Roger W. Moss Collection of Manuscript, Original Art and Printed Material by and about Richard Shirley Smith
Collection PDF:
https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/5884.pdf
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/2396042
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2396042?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1