Rosalind And Helen : A Lecture. Forman, H.B. English & American Literature

"Of this book, twenty-five copies only have been printed", on Van Gelder paper [in addition there were 3 on vellum]. Pale lilac printed boards, 8vo, 24 cm, 27, [1] pp. Rare. Rarebookshub records only this copy and one other at auction in the last 100 years. A lecture delivered to the Shelley Society on 13th June 1888. Harry Buxton Forman had previously published his highly regarded complete works of Shelley (1876-1880) and an excellent bibliography of him (A Shelley Library, 1886); he was described by Professor Dowden as 'our chef living authority on all that relates to Shelley's writings'. [Todd 256d] From the library of John Carter as recorded in Bonhams sale catalogue of 23 May 2012, Lot 180, their lot slip laid in, armorial bookplate of Herbert S. Leon* on front pastedown endpaper, boards browned at edges and slightly fingersoiled, free endpapers browned from offset with pastedowns, untrimmed edges browned, otherwise Good. *Herbert Samuel Leon (1850-1926), stockbroker and financial advisor, owner of Bletchley Park from 1883 to his death.