First facsimile edition, this one of only three copies printed on vellum and signed by the printers Richard Clay & Sons, this from the library of the edition's publisher and editor H. Buxton-Forman, President of the Shelley Society, with his illustrated bookplate. Epipsychidion (the title means "to/for a little soul/Psyche") was Shelley's intense lyrical love poem addressed to the "poor captive bird" Teresa "Emilia" Viviani, a beautiful Italian countess of 19 years who was "imprisoned" in St Anna convent while her father sought her a suitable husband. The poem includes his notorious couplet in defence of free love: "True love in this differs from gold or clay / that to divide is not to take away". Granniss, 62; Wise, p. 59. Octavo. Original blue boards, printed paper label to spine. Very light wear at head of spine. A near-fine copy.