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PREFACE.
with an intimation that the revised book would soon be published.
Since that time there has not been, as far as I know, any public notice tending to keep track of this precious volume. It remained, in point of fact, in the hands of Mr. Brooks the publisher, who gave it to Thomas Wade, the poet of Mundi et Cordis Carmina, not many years ago. From the time of Wade's death, in comparative seclusion, this book was reverently preserved by his widow, who, on learning that I was looking up all available material for an exhaustive edition of Shelley's
