Marrin's Bookshop

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8vo. 9 x 6 inches. 256 pp. Bound in original light blue cloth, gilt, in unclipped pictorial dust wrapper, which has edge wear and chips at head of spine. Spine and adjoining board edges sunned, but otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by 9 pages of black and white plates, including portrait frontispiece, by whole page text figure and by vignette title. PIctorial endpapers. BIography of the journalist, political philosopher, writer and radical, William Godwin (1756-1836), with an account of his circle, including Charles Lamb and Percy Bysshe Shelley, and his first wife, Mary Wollstonecraft, mother of Mary Shelley. Two appendices list Godwin's chief works and recorded portraits. By Rosalie Glynn Grylls (1905-86), biographer of the Romantic period and Liberal politician.