For a while now I've been looking for a decent version of Shelley's works in epub format. There are several free copies around (including one on this forum), but they all share the same fault of failing to reproduce the alignment of verses found in printed editions. Shelley's poetry includes a lot of complicated changes in metre and rhyme, for which the visual presentation provides an essential guide. This is also a factor in his verse dramas, where a single line can be spoken by up to three different people and (in Charles I) the characters switch between poetry and prose structures within the same scene. Random House offers a decently-formatted version as part of its Modern Library imprint, but it is both expensive and, while following the format of Hutchinson's 1904 edition, fails to include his editorial notes.
So, I decided to do it myself, though it ended up being a larger project than I thought. This version is based on the 1914 revision of the Hutchinson Oxford Shelley, and the colophon includes links to the resources used. Shelley peppered his work with quotations (sometimes extensive) in various ancient and modern languages, so I included translations for all these passages, apart from those where a translation is provided in the text itself (e.g. 'Good-night'/'Buona Notte'). All the text and translations are in the public domain.
There are two versions. One for Adobe RMSDK-based readers, which should work well for screens of 6" or larger, and one for iBooks, which doesn't include the formatting tweaks because of problems in iBooks' css handling. As the book includes extensive marginalia it may not be as pretty on a really small (i.e. phone) screen, but should still be readable.
I spent a couple of weeks proofing and tweaking the text, but if anyone does spot a residual error, please let me know in the comments.
[Edit] Updated with a version that should work better for Kobo ereaders, or other readers that use an older version of the RMSDK.
[Update: 14-07-14: Added ePub3 version.]
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