The Athenians. Being Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson Hogg and his friends Thomas Love Peacock, Leigh Hunt, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and others.
[London:]: Golden Cockerel Press, 1943. Frontisportrait. Half reddish-brown morocco, raised bands, gilt spine, dark blue-green cloth boards. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Light shelfwear. Very good. First edition. One of 350 copies. Octavo. 87 pp. Item #17407
[Together with:] Scott, Walter Sidney, editor. Shelley at Oxford. the Early Correspondence of P. B. Shelley with his friend T.J. Hogg, together with letters of Mary Shelley and T.L. Peacock, and a hitherto unpublished prose fragment by Shelley. [London:] The Golden Cockerel Press, 1944. Octavo. 79 pp. Four portraits. Bound as the previous volume. Very good. First edition. One of 500 copies. [and:] Scott, Walter Sidney, ed. Harriet & Mary. Being the Relations Between Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harriet Shelley, Mary Shelley, and Thomas Jefferson Hogg, As Shown in Letters Between Them Now Published for the First Time. [London:] The Golden Cockerel Press, 1944. Octavo. 84 pp. Frontisportrait. Bound as above. Very good.First edition. One of 500 copies. Cockalorum 158, 161, 163. NCBEL 317.
The letters in these volumes were in the possession of the editor’s wife, Peggy, who was the great niece of Thomas Jefferson Hogg. They contain correspondence between Shelley and his biographer and boon companion, Hogg. Particularly significant are the letters concerning Hogg’s “relations” with Shelley’s wives, Harriet and Mary. Scott’s commentary on these letters clearly reveals his purpose (perhaps imperfectly realized) of clearing Hogg of the charge traditionally levelled at him, that he tried to seduce both women.
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