NMLP P-041525 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19

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

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

No book-club issue at this date. The dominant trap is the second issue sold as simply 'first edition' - technically correct (both issues are the 1820 first edition) but the corrected, cancelled-A3 state is the common one, and catalogs that say only 'first edition' without addressing A3 should be read as unplaced. Check whether A3 is integral or a cancel by collation, not by the reading alone. Also watch for copies bound without the half-title and terminal advertisement leaf, and for later collected editions of Shelley's poetical works (Mary Shelley's 1839 edition and after) offered as first appearances of the poem.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-041525 for "Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts, With Other Poems" by Percy Bysshe Shelley (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-041525, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).