The dates of Shelley's publications now come fast and frequent.

In the late summer of 1810 he introduced himself to Mr.J.J.Stockdale, the then fashionable publisher of poems and romances, at his house of business in Pall Mall.

With characteristic impetuosity the young author implored assistance in a difficulty.

He had commissioned a printer in Horsham to strike off the astounding number of 1480 copies of a volume of poems; and he had no money to pay the printer's bill.

Would Stockdale help him out of this dilemma, by taking up the quires and duly ushering the book into the world?
Throughout his life Shelley exercised a wonderful fascination over the people with whom he came in contact, and almost always won his way with them as much by personal charm as by determined and impassioned will.