From the fourth Golden Cockerel Press bibliography, Cock-a-Hoop.
December 1955. ZASTROZZI. A Romance by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Introduced by Phyllis Hartnoll. 8 wood-engravings by Cecil Keeling. 132 pp. 9 x 6 ¼ ins. Bell 12 pt type. 200 copies on Japanese Vellum. 60 copies in black morocco with a second set of engravings, price 12 gns.
Shelley's first printed work, published in 1810, now seems charmingly melodramatic, but there is no doubt that he wished his readers to take it seriously. (His) early preoccupation with the supernatural and the macabre strengthened (his) sense of horror mingled with fascination in the presence of death which sheds an unearthly beauty over much of his finest poetry. Cecil Keeling cut eight sinister full-page engravings to match Shelley's eerie tale.
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