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THBWilliam Benbow's edition of Queen Mab
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Jan 21, 2026
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Auction of The Jane Stanton Hitchcock Collection on Wednesday, January 21, 2026 at 10am Artwork, Furniture, Decorations, Silver, Books and More from the Best-Selling Mystery Novelist Contents of Her Elegant Duplex at 10 Gracie Square on Manhattan's Upper East Side Doyle info@doyle.com
Auction of The Jane Stanton Hitchcock Collection on Wednesday, January 21, 2026 at 10am Artwork, Furniture, Decorations, Silver, Books and More from the Best-Selling Mystery Novelist Contents of Her Elegant Duplex at 10 Gracie Square on Manhattan's Upper East Side Doyle info@doyle.com
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The Jane Stanton Hitchcock CollectionSHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE Queen Mab; a Philosophical Poem. New York: Printed by William Baldwin and Co., corner of Chatham Street [but London: William Benbow, 1821]. The second unauthorized edition, probably the third issue, without the engraved title. Publisher's blue boards with paper spine, housed in a modern leather-backed slipcase (claiming "first American edition" on the spine, which it was long thought to be). 6 x 3 3/4 inches (15 x 9.5 cm); [12], 181, [1] pp. Boards detached, spine chipped name on front board and endpaper. H. Buxton Forman's copy, with his bookplate. This edition purports to bear a New York imprint, but was demonstrably printed in London by William Benbow, William Cobbett's friend and erstwhile printer, who later became an ardent supporter of the Chartist cause. Queen Mab was a work beloved by the Chartists and their predecessors, infused as it is with Godwin and Shelley's ideas on moral evolution. As is described in the prefatory note here, William Clark's earlier edition of the same year resulted in his imprisonment at the behest of the Society for the Prevention of Vice, hence the necessary subterfuge of an "American edition." The preface also includes the explanatory letter sent by Shelley to the Examiner, disowning the publication under his name.No condition report? Click below to request one.*Any condition statement is given as a courtesy to a client, is an opinion and should not be treated as a statement of fact and Doyle New York shall have no responsibility for any error or omission. Please contact the specialist department to request further information or additional images that may be available. Request a condition report
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