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London/Philadelphia: William Heinemann/J.B. Lippincott Co, 1911. First Thus. First U.K. Robinson-illustrated Deluxe edition, a Heinemann "Xmas Art Book" that originally sold for 15 shillings. Publisher's deluxe binding of full vellum over boards, front cover and spine elaborately stamped and lettered in gilt, pictorial end-papers, top edge gilt. In the scarce original pictorial dust jacket with just some very minor rubbing at extremities. Small, neat and inoffensive ink stamped signature on half-title and title-page. Quarto (10 3/8 x 7 3/4 in; 264 x 195 mm.). Collating xii, [4], 17-127, [1]. Eighteen full color tipped-in plates, including frontispiece, with captioned tissue guards. Small color, halftone, or black and white (some full page) illustrations to each page. Housed in the original green cardboard slipcase with the color illustration from page 61 on front panel. A tight, bright, and Fine copy of this generously produced volume. "No more tastefully illustrated book of…

The Sensitive Plant is a lyrical poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley that tells the story of a Sensitive Plant in a garden and uses this as a metaphor for a philosophical reflection on the relationships between life, death, and rebirth, and the transient nature of beauty and happiness.

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