Spender, Stephen, 1909–1995, The Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Selected, edited, and introduced by Stephen Spender Illustrated with wood engravings by Richard Shirley Smith. Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1971, 1971
- Call Number:
- MSS 17
- Holdings:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
- Creator:
- Spender, Stephen, 1909–1995
- Title(s):
- The Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Selected, edited, and introduced by Stephen Spender Illustrated with wood engravings by Richard Shirley Smith. Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1971.
- Date:
- 1971
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Series:
- Series II: Publications Designed or Illustrated by Richard Shirley Smith
- Part of Collection:
- volume Moss no. 91
- Provenance:
- Gift of Roger W. Moss, 2011
- Conditions Governing Access:
- The materials are open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use:
- Copyright UndeterminedThe collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Archives Department.
- Scope and Content:
- Designed by John Dreyfus and printed at the University Printing House in Cambridge by Brooke Crutchley, Printer to the University. Forty-six engravings [Bain nos. 165-210]. Edition of 1500 copies signed and numbered by Shirley Smith of which this is copy no. 793. Quarter bound in leather with orange book cloth boards impressed with oval relief (60 mm) portrait of Shelley. Slip case. A copy of The Monthly Letter of the Limited Editions Club (December, 1971, no. 450) laid in. The Shelley project––commissioned by the Limited Editions Club in the United States in 1969 at the suggestion of John Dreyfus-- was printed in 1971 and reprinted by the Heritage Press in 1974. This was Shirley Smith's largest book project in terms of the number of commissioned wood engravings. He would later write, 'I think the word "masterpiece" originally referred to the piece of work, that divides the apprentice from the professional; in which case this was my "masterpiece" as regards engraving.' The Paintings & Collages, p. 10. A record for this item is also available in the <extref xlink:type="simple" xlink:actuate="onRequest" xlink:show="new" xlink:href="http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/10425954">Yale University Library Catalog.</extref>
- Physical Description:
- Pp. [i-iv] v-xxvii [xxviii] [1-2] 3-312 [313-316] ; 280 x 178 mm
- Finding Aid Title:
- Roger W. Moss Collection of Manuscript, Original Art and Printed Material by and about Richard Shirley Smith
- Collection PDF:
- https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/5884.pdf
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/2396040
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2396040?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1