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viii, 28pp, untrimmed, sewn as issued without wrappers; titlepage with sl. variable browning, corners sl. chipped or folded. A decent copy as originally issued of this scarce first UK edition, in dark blue morocco & cloth box. Wise p.61. MacGillivray N18, noting 'the publication of the second edition. at Cambridge is indicative of the special enthusiasm for both Keats and Shelley of young men such as Richard Monckton Milnes, Arthur Hallam, and Alfred Tennyson'. The publisher's advertisement (p.iii) declares the present volume 'an exact reprint (a few typographical errors only being corrected,) of the first edition of 'Adonais', dated "Pisa, with the types of Didot, MDCCCXXI." W.M. Rossetti notes in his introduction to the 1891 edition of Adonais, that 'The Cambridge edition, an octavo in paper wrappers, is now still scarcer than the Pisan one'.