Four manuscript sonnets on Percy Bysshe Shelley

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{"value"=>"<p>In ink; two poems on each page of one single sheet : (S'ANA 0909) : first lines of each poem as follows: \"Shelley! thy mind was as a noble bark\"; \"The loftiest poetic powers were thine\"; \"How wildly sweet the breatings of thy lyre\"; \"For thou hadst seen thine error and returned\". Signed \"Nemo Aug.t 183[-]\" (last digit of date cut off). Tipped into Pforzheimer copy 3 of the first edition, first issue of Byron's Prisoner of Chillon. A partially erased inscription on the front free endpaper, in what seems to be the same hand as that in the \"sonnets,\" examined in ultra-violet light, reads: \"Julia R[ ] June 1824 / from Eliz[a] R[ ] / June 18 / 1817.\".</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

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{"value"=>"Four manuscript sonnets on Percy Bysshe Shelley, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library"}

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{"value"=>" In ink; two poems on each page of one single sheet : (S'ANA 0909) : first lines of each poem as follows: \"Shelley! thy mind was as a noble bark\"; \"The loftiest poetic powers were thine\"; \"How wildly sweet the breatings of thy lyre\"; \"For thou hadst seen thine error and returned\". Signed \"Nemo Aug.t 183[-]\" (last digit of date cut off). Tipped into Pforzheimer copy 3 of the first edition, first issue of Byron's Prisoner of Chillon. A partially erased inscription on the front free endpaper, in what seems to be the same hand as that in the \"sonnets,\" examined in ultra-violet light, reads: \"Julia R[ ] June 1824 / from Eliz[a] R[ ] / June 18 / 1817.\".", "generated"=>true}

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