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London – The 19th century poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) didn’t just preach free love, communal living and the rights of women – he also walked the talk.
A book charting the expedition which led to Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, sold as part of a set for £14,880 at Dreweatts and Bloomsbury Auctions’ sale of Antiquarian Books, held yesterday,