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Allen Press, Ode to the West Wind, 1/100

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Title: Ode to the West Wind
Author: Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Description: [11] pp. With hand-colored autumn leaves decorations throughout (including title page), engraved by Mallette Dean. 10x7¾, orange wrappers. 1 of 100 copies hand-set in Romanée type face, printed damp on English hand-made paper, cover paper from the Fabriano mill (not far from Florence), on the hand-press of Lewis and Dorothy Allen."Perhaps the most charming edition of the Ode ever printed. One of the supreme achievements of The Allen Press" – Steven Corey (Special Collections Librarian at University of San Francisco) in his Allen Press updated checklist, p. 110. [Allen Press Biblio. 10A], (see pp. 33 and 110).
Heading: (Allen Press)Place Published: Florence
Publisher: The L-D Allen Press
Date Published: [1951]