NMLP P-035096 · True-first precedence · 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

An unauthorized and textually altered piracy of Queen Mab was issued by the bookseller William Clark in 1821, which Shelley tried unsuccessfully to suppress through the courts. That 1821 piracy has no standing as an edition sanctioned by Shelley and must not be confused with the true 1813 privately printed first edition.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-035096 for "Queen Mab; A Philosophical Poem: With Notes" by Percy Bysshe Shelley (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-035096, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).