THE NECESSITY OF ATHEISM: A reprint of the original edition produced in 1811.
Edited by Thomas J. Wise and Percy Vaughan. Issued for the Rationalist Press Association, Limited, by arrangement with the Shelley Society. Pp. xxii+14(last blank); cr. 8vo; stiff dark green paper wrappers with flap folds, lettered in black, lightly marked and worn, lower wrapper and last leaf with light horizontal crease, stitched; label of Dugald Smith on recto of upper blank leaf, and his inked notation on facsimile of original title page, upper hinge and one part of text starting, some foxing throughout; Watts & Co., London, 1906. Smith (Shelley), p. 329; Todd 271a. *Issued for the Rationalist Press Association, Limited, by arrangement with the Shelley Society. The first separately published edition of a controversial essay written while Shelley was a student at University College, Oxford. In the Editors' Introduction Wise and Vaughan describe it as 'an important landmark in Shelley's career, leading, as it did, to his expulsion from Oxford, and thus influencing all his subsequent writings' [p. iii]. Item #168668
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