ZASTROZZI A ROMANCE,

With An Introduction by Phyllis Hartnoll And Engravings by Cecil Keeling

Limited edition: 131 pages, frontispiece, 7 full page engravings, marbled end papers, full black leather binding with decorative gilt on both covers, titled gilt on the spine, housed in a marbled paper slipcase which matches the end papers, a fine copy.

The colophon reads: This edition of Zastrozzi has been produced and published by Christopher Sandford of the Golden Cockerel Press, London. It has been printed in Bell type on Japanese vellum by the John Roberts press. There are 200 copies only. Nos. 1-60 are specially bound and accompanied by extra prints of the eight engravings. This is copy number 34

There is a separate matching marbled paper folder which houses the 8 extra engravings as stipulated in the limitation.

Zastrozzi: A Romance is a Gothic novel by Percy Bysshe Shelley first published in 1810 in London by George Wilkie and John Robinson anonymously, with only the initials of the author's name, as "by P.B.S.". The first of Shelley's two early Gothic novellas, the other being St. Irvyne, outlines his atheistic worldview through the villain Zastrozzi[ and touches upon his earliest thoughts on irresponsible self-indulgence and violent revenge. An 1810 reviewer wrote that the main character "Zastrozzi is one of the most savage and improbable demons that ever issued from a diseased brain".

Shelley wrote Zastrozzi at the age of seventeen while attending his last year at Eton College, though it was not published until later in 1810 while he was attending University College, Oxford. The novella was Shelley's first published prose work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zastrozzi