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First Robinson edition, deluxe issue in vellum, retaining the rare dust jacket. Quarto. Original vellum, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and front board gilt, top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers. With dust jacket. Tipped in colour frontispiece with tissue guard, 17 similar plates, and numerous illustrations in text. Very light discolouration to vellum, front hinge a little tender, covers very slightly bowed, still a near-fine copy; jacket restored with some loss.

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.