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New York: Wright & Owen, 1831. Stated second American edition. 12mo (18.5cm). In original cream paper-covered boards, backed in light green muslin, with original printed paper label to spine, largely intact; plain endpapers; viii [9] 10-120pp. Ink ownership inscription of H. A. Fletcher to title page. Temoin on final leaf of text. Straight, tight, and clean, with general mild wear to boards, spine faded, one or two minor chips to spine label, with some foxing (heaviest on endleaves): Very Good. Includes an 8-page preface by Frances Wright and Robert Dale Owen. The uncommon second American printing of Shelley's revolutionary epic poem, published by the radical utopian duo of Frances Wright and Robert Dale Owen. A favorite book among the Owenites, and unofficially adopted in the 1830's as the "Bible of the Chartists," Queen Mab was first issued privately by Shelley in 1813. It remained unnoticed by the public until a London piracy of 1821. That same year another piracy, with a…

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.