Swinburne's Proof Sheets and American First Editions: Bibliographical Data Relating to a Few of the Publications of Algernon Charles Swinburne, With Notes on the Priority of Certain Claimants to the Distinction of "Editio Princeps" (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Flora V. Livingston

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ISBN 10: 133207040X ISBN 13: 9781332070404

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2020

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Excerpt from Swinburne's Proof Sheets and American First Editions: Bibliographical Data Relating to a Few of the Publications of Algernon Charles Swinburne, With Notes on the Priority of Certain Claimants to the Distinction of "Editio Princeps"

Swinburne's life was one of many quarrels and fiery conflicts with friends, authors and publishers.

The most bitter of all these was that with Robert Buchanan; and Mr. Wise devotes many pages to this controversy. 'under the Microscope,' 1872, was Swinburne's reply to the attack made by Buchanan upon Rossetti and himself in 'the Fleshly School of Poetry.' The edition consisted of five hundred copies. Immediately one leaf was cancelled, only four or five copies being preserved, and a reprinted leaf with the changed passage rela tive to the characters in Tennyson's 'idylls of the King,' was pasted on the stub. In the Harry Elkins Widener Collection are two copies, one with the original leaf, and the other with the reprinted one, and also the manuscript apparently as it went to the printer. Mr. Wise prints many letters and manuscripts concerning this controversy, which have not previously been published. 'under the Microscope' was never reprinted in England, but Mosher published an edition in 1899, which gives the text of the reprinted leaf, not the original.

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Excerpt from Swinburne's Proof Sheets and American First Editions: Bibliographical Data Relating to a Few of the Publications of Algernon Charles Swinburne, With Notes on the Priority of Certain Claimants to the Distinction of "Editio Princeps" These Notes are the outcome of a painstaking examination of 'A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of Algernon Charles Swinburne by Thomas J. Wise. London: Printed for Private Circulation only by Richard Clay & Sons, Ltd. 1919.' One hundred and twenty-five copies were printed, of which about ninety were for sale. In checking up the Bibliography with the Swinburne collections in the Harvard College Library, the Boston Public Library, the private collection of Mr. E. K. Butler of Jamaica Plain, and, through the interest and generosity of the owners, several collections in New York City, information has been gathered which was not known to Mr. Wise. The additional data relates especially to the American editions, some of which are earlier than the English, which Mr. Wise probably has not had the opportunity to examine. As each of these collections has added something hitherto undescribed, it is likely that other collections in America may contain unrecorded treasures which the comparison of copies and collations would reveal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 133207040X
• ISBN 13: 9781332070404
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 38