Laon and Cythna;

OR,

THE REVOLUTION

OF

THE GOLDEN CITY:

A Vision of the Nineteenth Century.

IN THE STANZA OF SPENSER.

BY

PERCY B. SHELLEY.

ΔΟΣ ΠΟΥ ΣΤΩ ΚΑΙ ΚΟΣΜΟΝ ΚΙΝΗΣΩ.

ARCHIMEDES.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR SHERWOOD, NEELY, & JONES, PATERNOSTER-ROW; AND C. AND

J. OLLIER, WELBECK-STREET:

By B. M'Millan, Bow-Street, Covent-Garden.

1818.

Written in the summer of 1817, the book was printed in the latter part of that year, the title-page being post-dated as usual; but before it was regularly issued, it was suppressed for the purpose of altering the text in some particulars and changing the title.

The Revolt of Islam, being made up from the same sheets with a fresh title-page and 26 cancel-leaves, the same bibliographical particulars apply, except that the preface, having the final paragraph cancelled, ends on page xxi, and the fly-title with quotation from Pindar bears the words The Revolt of Islam. Some few copies of The Revolt of Islam bear the date 1817, instead of 1818. The same sheets were used again in 1829, with a third title-page; and some copies of that issue contain the original Laon and Cythna text, without the changed leaves printed in The Revolt.

ROSALIND AND HELEN &c.

Rosalind and Helen, &c., printed in the spring of 1819, is an octavo volume consisting of fly-title Rosalind and Helen, title-page, 2 pages of Preface (called "Advertisement"), contents, fly-title Rosalind and Helen, a Modern Eclogue, and text pages 3 to 92. On the back of the first fly-title are advertisements of The Revolt of Islam and Alastor, and also an imprint, C. H. Reynell, Broad-street, Goldensquare, London. The title-page is as follows:

Laon and Cythna;

OR,

THE REVOLUTION

ΟΥ

THE GOLDEN CITY:

A Wision of the Mineteenth Century.

IN THE STANZA OF SPENSER

BY

PERCY B. SHELLEY.

ΔΟΣ ΠΟΥ ΣΤΩ ΚΑΙ ΚΟΣΜΟΝ ΚΙΝΗΣΩ.

ARCHIMEDIS.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR SHERWOOD, NEELY, & JONES, PATERNOSTERROW; AND C. AND J. OLLIER, WELBECK-STREET:

By B. M'Millan, Bow Street, Covent-Garden.

1818.

ROSALIND AND HELEN,

A MODERN ECLOGUE;

WITH

OTHER POEMS:

BY

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR C. AND J. OLLIER,

VERE STREET, BOND STREET.

1819.

Mrs. Shelley says in her note on Poems of 1816 that the hymn "was conceived during Shelley's voyage around the Lake (Geneva) with Lord Byron." It is to this period we must refer Byron's Prisoner of Chillon.

THE CENCI.

The first edition of The Cenci, though somewhat wide in proportion to its height and approaching in shape to a quarto, is in reality an octavo, being printed on half sheets of paper folded in four. It consists of a blank leaf in place of fly-title, title-page, Dedication pages iii to v, Preface pages vii to xiv, fly-title The Cenci with Dramatis Personæ at back,