NMLP P-035094 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-09

Queen Mab; A Philosophical Poem: With Notes

Percy Bysshe Shelley · Printed by P. B. Shelley; no trade publisher named on the title page (London) · 1813

Fearing prosecution for the poem's attacks on monarchy, organized religion, and marriage, Shelley "mutilated" many of the copies he personally bound and gave out, cutting away the title leaf and the final leaf that would have identified him, and in some copies the dedication leaf to his wife Harriet as well

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-035094 for "Queen Mab; A Philosophical Poem: With Notes" by Percy Bysshe Shelley (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-035094, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).