The volume, and especially the untrimmed copies measuring 10×7-1/2 inches, are beautiful in appearance. There is a certain marked peculiarity in the typography, however, which is explained by Mr. Forman in this way: "The frequent dashes, which seem to have exactly the value usual with Shelley, are all double the usual length, except in two instances. The fact is that, in Shelley's bold writing, these dashes _were_ very long: the English printers would understand this; but Didot's people seem to have followed them literally; and the book being boldly printed, this peculiarity would not be likely to strike Shelley in revising." The name of the press at Pisa is not given; the fact that the "Types of Didot" were used does not of course necessarily mean that the Didots had an office there, as Mr. Forman would seem to imply. In the preface Shelley speaks as if he had changed his mind about issuing the criticism of _Hyperion_ with this volume, as he planned to do in the letter to Ollier. "It is my intention to subjoin to the London edition of this poem, a criticism upon the claims of its lamented object to be classed among the writers of the highest genius who have adorned our age." No London edition is known, however. The poem was first printed in England in the columns of the _Literary Chronicle_ for December 1, 1821, where it was appended to a review; but in this form stanzas XIX to XXIV were omitted. The earliest separate reprint bears the impress _Cambridge: Printed by W. Metcalfe, and sold by Messrs. Gee & Bridges, Market-Hill_. MDCCCXXIX. Two quotations from an interesting unpublished letter, belonging to a member of the Grolier Club, show that Ollier, who had been the publisher of most of Shelley's works, had copies of the Pisa book for sale, shortly after it was issued; the letter is addressed to "Meſs^r. Ollier & Co., Booksellers Vere Street, Bond St., London, Angleterre," and reads: "Bagni. July 27. 1821 "DEAR SIR "I send you the bill of lading of the box containing Adonais: and I send also a copy to yourself by M^r. Gisborne who probably will arrive before the Ship.... The work I send you, has been seen in print by M^r. Gisborne, & has excited, as it must in every one, the deepest interest. "Dear Sir, Yours very truly "P. B. SHELLEY." Quarto. COLLATION: _25 pp._ CHARLES LAMB (1775-1834) 74. Elia. | Essays Which Have Appeared Under That Signature | In The | London Magazine. | London: | Printed For Taylor And Hessey, | Fleet-Street. | 1823.