NMLP P-041524 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts, With Other Poems

Percy Bysshe Shelley · C. and J. Ollier, London · 1820

Publisher, city and year in the census are correct: C. and J. Ollier, London, 1820. Two corrections. First, the title is incomplete as given - the volume is 'Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts, With Other Poems', and the 'Other Poems' matter is the point of the book for many collectors, containing 'Ode to the West Wind', 'To a Skylark' and 'The Cloud' in their first appearances. Second, the census's precedence note conflates two things: the errata-leaf claim is unsupported (see points), while the 'Miscellaneous' issue point is real but works the opposite way round from how the note reads - it is the FIRST issue that carries the misspelling on an integral A3, corrected in the second issue by a cancel leaf. There is no competing UK, American or foreign-language edition with a precedence claim; the 1820 Ollier volume is the sole first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-041524 for "Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts, With Other Poems" by Percy Bysshe Shelley (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-041524, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).