The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: The four ages of poetry. Recollections of childhood: The Abbey house. Memoirs of Percy Bysshe Shelley. The last day of Windsor forest. Letters. An essay on fashionable literature. Unfinished tales and novels. 1934

This volume is part of the Halliford Edition of the works of Thomas Love Peacock, published in ten volumes between 1924 and 1934. Edited by H.F.B. Brett-Smith and C.E. Jones, this comprehensive collection was intended to be the definitive scholarly edition of the nineteenth-century satirist's writings. It emerged during a period of renewed academic interest in Peacock, aiming to consolidate his essays, letters, and fragmentary works that had previously been scattered or difficult for researchers to access.

The 1934 volume serves as the final installment of the set, gathering diverse pieces including his critical essay 'The Four Ages of Poetry'—famously the impetus for Shelley’s 'A Defence of Poetry'—as well as his biographical memoirs and unfinished prose. The edition is noted for its restrained, classic typography and cloth binding, typical of the high-quality literary publishing standards championed by Constable & Co. during the interwar years. It remains a foundational resource for students of Romantic-era literature and Peacock’s specific brand of intellectual satire.