8vo. [2], 144pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Later full calf, ruled in gilt and blind, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. Marbled endpapers. Lightly rubbed and marked, upper board sunned. Bookplate of John A. Radford to FEP, leaves browned and stained, title and frontispiece chipped, and small marginal loss to upper edge of terminal leaf.

An early pirated edition of Shelley's poetry, one of many publications produced by radicals and Reformists to spread Shelley's poetry affordably to a working-class audience. As such, the typesetting is far from perfect, with the running title being inverted on one occasion. The collection contains mostly shorter lyrics, particularly sonnets, dirges, and other songs, as well as multiple fragments.

William Benbow (1787-1864) was linked to the piracy of Shelley as early as 1815, due to his association with George Cannon (pseudonym Erasmus Perkins), editor of the Theological Enquirer, a periodical which reprinted substantial portions of Queen Mab. A nonconformist preacher and major figure of the Reform Movement, Benbow was imprisoned several times for alleged political and publishing offences, but never charged.