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182 pp. 8vo, publisher's boards with printed paper label on spine. Preserved in a custom cloth slipcase and chemise. First regularly published edition. This copy lacks free endpapers from and rear, the dedication leaf, and the ads. Armorial bookplate; extremities of spine chipped and edges of boards worn; cracked at the joints but cords still sound.

Queen Mab, A Philosophical Poem; With Notes, often referred to as Queen Mab, is the first large poetic work written by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), the English Romantic poet. After substantial reworking, a portion of the text was later issued as The Daemon of the World.