[First Edition] PROMETHEUS' DAUGHTER

FIRST EDITION. 8vo. viii, [2], 403pp, [1]. A few spots to the blank endpapers and first and last leaves, otherwise a bright and clean copy throughout. Finely bound, very likely for the author, in contemporary full tan calf, the spine with raised bands, each with gilt piping. Compartments ruled and fully decorated in gilt. Black morocco label, gilt. Boards with decorative blind and gilt tooled panels. Boards with bevelled edges and gilt tooling to the very edges. Marbled endpapers. Gilt inner dentelles. All edges gilt. A very good copy of this rare, privately issued first edition. Using Percy Shelley's Prometheus Unbound as his inspiration, Abbott's epic poem is set after the downfall of the rebel god and centres on his daughter Indra, destined to one day rule the world. Rare. No copies of this first edition located on Worldcat. General Sir James Abbott, KCB (12 March 1807 ? 6 October 1896) was a Bengal Army officer and colonial administrator. The Pakistani city of Abbottabad, as well as the district and subdistrict is named after him. The city itself was founded by him in January 1853 and later grew from a small military outpost to a hub of trade. The people of Abbottabad have rejected various proposals to rename the city. A portrait of James Abbott dressed as an Afghan noble and relating to his Central Asian journey, was painted in watercolour in 1841 by B. Baldwin, now in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London.

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