Rossetti Archive Textual Transcription
Document Title: Poems (1870): Printer's copy MS for first edition proofs front matter
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of publication: 1870 February
Publisher: F. S. Ellis
Printer: Strangeways and Walden
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- Poems
- by
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- (query address?)
- F. S. Ellis, 33 King Street, Covent Garden.
- 1870
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Printer's Direction: Print this
at back / of Dedication in the / small type used in / the Italian song / at page 182-183
Editorial Description: Directions to the printer
(Many poems in this volume
were written between 1847
and 1853. Others are of
recent date, and a few belong
to the intervening period. It
has been thought unnecessary
to specify the earlier work,
as nothing is included which
the author does not believe
to be matured to the measure
of his powers.)
were written between 1847
and 1853. Others are of
recent date, and a few belong
to the intervening period. It
has been thought unnecessary
to specify the earlier work,
as nothing is included which
the author does not believe
to be matured to the measure
of his powers.)
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Printer's Direction: This dedication to be / divided and punctuated / as above. /
See overpage
Editorial Description: Directions to the printer
- To
- To William Michael Rossetti,
- These Poems,
- to so many of which, so many years back,
- he gave the first brotherly hearing,
- are now at last dedicated.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
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