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First published edition (unauthorized), expurgated state, and with publisher's ad leaf presentadverrtising this editio at 1s. 6d. bds. 182, [1, ads]pp. 8vo. This edition was published without Shelley's consent, and the publisher spent four months in jail, on the grounds of distribution of illegal material, and he was eventually pardoned (agreeing to provide all unsold copies to the Society for the Suppression of Vice). Tinker 1888; NCBEL III, 314; originally privately printed in a very small edition in 1813] Bound in contemporary quarter brown calf and marbled boards First published edition (unauthorized), expurgated state, and with publisher's ad leaf presentadverrtising this editio at 1s. 6d. bds.

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.