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 PREFACE.

copy of Queen Mab upon which Shelley worked to produce the revised fragment published in 1816 with Alastor as The Dæmon of the World has been lost to the ken of Shelley-students and enthusiasts for many years. It was described in Medwin's Life of Shelley as a very much cut-down and altered version of Queen Mab. A somewhat similar account of the book was given in Middleton's Shelley and His Writings,