BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, WITH ARTWORK BY ROCKWELL KENT

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In 1817, poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and Horace Smith decided to each write a poem titled “Ozymandias,” an ancient Greek name for the Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II. While Smith’s Ozymandias is largely forgotten, Shelley’s endures as among the most famous poems ever penned in English. The sonnet tells the tale of a traveler who came upon the nearly buried ruins of an ancient monument. The fragment boasts,

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!

And yet, of these works, nothing but the fragment itself remains. It is a tragic, almost cruel, view of the titular character, who endures now as a name only and nothing more.

The poem is accompanied by Rockwell Kent’s Flame.

EDITION NOTES

• Limited to 200, numbered 1 through 200

• The second broadside of No Reply Press, Winter 2021.

• Broadside measures 5 by 10 ¾ inches.

• Printed by hand on Zerkall mouldmade paper using a Vandercook Universal I cylinder press at Letterpress PDX in Portland, Oregon.

• Typeset in Perpetua, designed by Eric Gill.

HAND-MADE FRAMING

• We offer museum-quality gallery frames, made specially for our broadsides. Each frame is made by hand with sustainably harvested poplar hardwood.

• The broadside is mounted to create a slight shadow which accents and exhibits the deckle edges of the papers we use.