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Editions: Poetry, Prose, and Fiction Listed Chronologically

First Editions Published During Shelley's Lifetime

Zastrozzi, A Romance. London: Printed for G. Wilkie & J. Robinson, 1810.

Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson; Being poems found amongst the papers of that noted female who attempted the life of the King in 1786. Ed. John Fitzvictor. By Shelley and Thomas Jefferson Hogg. Oxford: J. Munday, 1810.

The Wandering Jew; or, The Victim of the Eternal Avenger (1810)

First verse letter to Edward Fergus Graham: "As you will see I wrote to you" (14 May 1811).

The Necessity of Atheism. Worthing: C. & W. Phillips, 1811.

St. Irvyne; Or, The Rosicrucian: A Romance. By A Gentleman Of The University Of Oxford. London: Printed For J. J. Stockdale, 41, Pall Mall. 1811.

"An Address, to the Irish People" (Dublin, 1812).

Proposals for An Association of those Philanthropists, Who, Convinced of the Inadequacy of the Moral and Political State of Ireland to Produce Benefits which Are Nevertheless Attainable, Are Willing to Unite to Accomplish Its Regeneration. Dublin: I. Eton, 1812.

"A Letter to Lord Ellenborough, Occasioned by the Sentence which He Passed on Mr. D. I. Eaton, As Publisher of the Third Part of Paine's Age of Reason." Barnstaple: Syle, 1812.

The Devil's Walk (1812)

The Esdaile Notebook (released 1813)

Queen Mab; a Philosophical Poem: with Notes. London: Printed by P. B. Shelley, 1813; New York: W. Baldwin, 1821.

A Vindication of Natural Diet, being one in a series of notes to Queen Mab, a Philosophical Poem. London: J. Callow, 1813.

A Refutation of Deism: in a Dialogue. London: Schulze & Dean, 1814.

Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude: and Other Poems. London: Printed for Baldwin, Craddock & Joy and Carpenter & Son, by S. Hamilton, 1816.

"A Proposal for Putting Reform to the Vote Throughout the Kingdom. By the Hermit of Marlow." London: C. & J. Ollier, 1817.

Laon and Cythna; or, The Revolution of the Golden City: A Vision of the Nineteenth Century in the Stanza of Spenser (1817; revised and reissued in 1818 as The Revolt of Islam)

History of a Six Weeks' Tour through a Part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland: with Letters Descriptive of a Sail round the Lake of Geneva, and of the Glaciers of Chamouni, by Shelley and Mary Shelley. London: Printed for Thomas Hookham Jr. and C. & J. Ollier, 1817.

Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue; with Other Poems. London: Printed for C. & J. Ollier, 1819.

The Cenci. A Tragedy, in Five Acts. Leghorn, Italy: Printed for C. & J. Ollier, London, 1819.

Prometheus Unbound. A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts, With Other Poems. London: C. & J. Ollier, 1820.

Oedipus Tyrannus; or, Swellfoot the Tyrant. A Tragedy. In Two Acts. Translated From the Original Doric. London: Published for the author by J. Johnston, 1820.

Epipsychidion. Verses Addressed to the Noble and Unfortunate Lady Emilia V---- Now imprisoned in the Convent of----. London: C. & J. Ollier, 1821.

Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion etc. Pisa: With the types of Didot, 1821; Cambridge: Printed by W. Metcalfe & sold by Gee & Bridges, 1829.

Hellas: A Lyrical Drama. London: C. & J. Ollier, 1822.

The Devil's Walk: A Ballad. Public Record Office, England: File number: H.O. 42/127, f. 426.

Important Editions

Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ed. Mary W. Shelley. London: John and Henry L. Hunt, 1824.

The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. Ed. Cyrus Redding. Paris: A. and W. Galignani, 1829.

"The Poet Shelley_His Unpublished Work, The Wandering Jew.'" The Edinburgh Literary Journal; or, Weekly Register of Criticism and Belles Lettres no. 33 (27 June 1829): 43-45 and no. 34 (4 July 1829): 57-60.

"An Incantation Scene._A poem, hitherto unpublished, by Percy Bysshe Shelley." The Edinburgh Literary Journal; or, Weekly Register of Criticism and Belles Lettres no. 59 (26 Dec. 1829): 425-26.

A Philosophical View of Reform. Ed. T. W. Rolleston. London: Oxford UP, 1920.

"The Wandering Jew. A Poem. By the late Percy Bysshe Shelley." Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country 3, no. 18 (July 1831): 666-77.

The Masque of Anarchy. A Poem. Ed. Leigh Hunt. London: Edward Moxon, 1832.

The Shelley Papers: Original Poems and Papers by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ed. Thomas Medwin. London: Whittaker, Treacher & Co., 1833.

Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, with His Life. 2 vols. London: John Ascham, 1834.

The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ed. Mrs. Shelley. 4 vols. London: Edward Moxon, 1839.

The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ed. Mrs. Shelley. London: Edward Moxon, 1840 (on printed title page; engraved title page reads: 1839).

Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments. 2 vols. Ed. Mary Shelley. London: Edward Moxon, 1840.

The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ed. Mrs. Shelley. 3 vols. London: Edward Moxon & Co., 1847.

Shelley Memorials, from Authentic Sources. Ed. Lady Shelley [assisted by Edmund Ollier]. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1859.

Relics of Shelley. Ed. Richard Garnett. London: Edward Moxon, 1862.

The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ed. William Michael Rossetti. 2 vols. London: Moxon, 1870.

The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ed. H[arry] Buxton Forman. 4 vols. London: Reeves & Turner, 1876-77.

The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ed. William Michael Rossetti. 3 vols. London: E. Moxon, Son & Co., 1878.

The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, ed. H[arry] Buxton Forman. 8 vols. London: Reeves & Turner, 1880.

The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ed. Harry Buxton Forman. 2 vols. London: Reeves & Turner, 1882.

The Wandering Jew. A Poem. Ed. Bertram Dobell. London: Shelley Society, 1887.

The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ed. Richard Herne Shepherd. 3 vols. London: Chatto & Windus, 1888.

The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ed. Edward Dowden. London: Macmillan & Co., 1890.

The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ed. H[arry] Buxton Forman. 5 vols. [Aldine Edition] London and New York: George Bell & Sons, 1892.

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ed. George Edward Woodberry. Centenary Edition. 4 vols. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1892.

The Complete Poetical Works of Shelley, ed. George Edward Woodberry. Cambridge Edition. Cambridge, Mass.: Houghton, Mifflin, 1901.

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ed. Thomas Hutchinson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1904. (Reset 1905 and 1934 as Oxford Standard Authors Edition; corrected by G. M. Matthews and reset, 1970).

Forman, H. Buxton. "More Shelley Crumbs." Athen'um, no. 4258 (5 June 1909), 674.

Notebooks of Percy Bysshe Shelley, From the Originals in the Library of W. K. Bixby. 3 vols. Ed. H. Buxton Forman. Boston: Bibliophile Society, 1911.

The Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ed. C[harles] D. Locock. 2 vols. London: Methuen, 1911.

Wise T[homas] J. Wise. A Shelley Library. London: for private circulation, 1924.

The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ed. Roger Ingpen and Walter E. Peck. 10 vols. Julian Edition. London: Ernest Benn; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926-30.

Verse and Prose from the Manuscripts of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ed. Sir John C. E. Shelley-Rolls, Bart., and Roger Ingpen. London: privately printed, 1934.

Shelley's Prometheus Unbound: A Variorum Edition. Ed. Lawrence John Zillman. Seattle: U of Washington P, 1959.

The Esdaile Notebook: a Volume of Early Poems, by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Edited by Kenneth Neill Cameron from the Original Manuscript in The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1964.

Shelley: Selected Poems and Prose. Ed. G[eoffrey] M. Matthews. London: Oxford UP, 1964.

The Esdaile Poems. Edited from the manuscripts by Neville Rogers. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966.

Shelley's Prometheus Unbound: The Text and the Drafts; Toward a Modern Definitive Edition. Ed. Lawrence John Zillman. New Haven: Yale UP, 1968.

The Cenci. Ed. Roland A. Duerkson. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1970.

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ed. Thomas Hutchinson, corrected by G. M. Matthews. Oxford Standard Authors Edition. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1970.

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ed. Neville Rogers. Volume I, 1802-1813; Volume II, 1814-1817. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972 (Vol. I), 1975 (Vol. II).

Shelley's Poetry and Prose. Ed. Donald H. Reiman and Sharon B. Powers. New York: Norton, 1977 (3rd printing, corrected, 1982).

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Selected Poems. Ed. Timothy Webb. Everyman's University Library. London: Dent, 1977.

Zastrozzi, A Romance and St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian: A Romance. Ed. Hartley, A. J. and Frederick S. Frank. New York: Arno, 1977.

The Poems of Shelley. Ed. G. M. Matthews and Kelvin Everest. Vol. I. London: Longman, 1989.

The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ed. E. B. Murray. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. (Only volume published before Murray's death.)

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Selected Poetry and Prose. Ed. Timothy Webb. Everyman's University Library. London: Dent, 1995.

Shelley and his Circle: 1773-1822. Volumes I-IV ed. Kenneth Neill Cameron; V-VI, ed. Donald H. Reiman; VII-X ed. Reiman and Doucet Devin Fischer. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1961-    .

The Poems of Shelley. Ed. G. M. Matthews and Kelvin Everest. Vol. II. London: Longman, 2000.

The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Vol. 1. Ed. Donald H. Reiman and Neil Fraistat. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2000.

Shelley's Poetry and Prose. 2nd ed. Ed. Donald H. Reiman and Neil Fraistat. Forthcoming from W.W. Norton.