Poems (1870): Exhumation Proofs, First Issue (partial), Princeton/Troxell
(copy 1)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Production Description
Document Title: [Untitled]
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Printer: Strangeways and Walden
City of publication: London
Date of publication: 1869 October 30 (late October)
Pre-Publication Information: This is an imperfect copy of the first
issue of the Exhumation Proofs.
Pagination: [1]-2, 5-32, 35-36, 39-42, 49-52, 55-60, 63-67, [68 blank]
Issue: 1
Authorization: DGR
Collation: B - E
8, F
2
Note on Publication: The collation described here is ideal
Corrector: DGR
Provenance
Current Location: Princeton Library, Troxell Collection
Catalog Number: 23302
Physical Description
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Copyright: Used with permission of Princeton University. From the Princeton
University Library, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. All rights
reserved. Redistribution or republication in any medium requires express written
consent from Princeton University Library. Permissions inquiries should be
addressed to Associate University Librarian, Rare Books and Special Collections,
Princeton University Library.
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Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This is an imperfect set of the first issue of the Exhumation Proofs. The Troxell Collection has another copy of this issue with no pages after page 36, but including pages 33-34 (missing here). The proofs were printed off in October 1869 from copies of the poems made by DGR from the manuscript copies he had buried in his wife's grave in 1862. The poems were exhumed on 5 October 1869 and DGR began recopying immediately. He then used these proofs to make further corrections and additions to the exhumed poems.
A second issue of the Exhumation Proofs was pulled, incorporating many but not all of the corrections from the first issue. Copies of the second issue (imperfect) are also in the Troxell Collection. The only perfect copy of the Exhumation Proofs is in the Huntington Library. It is a second issue and is bound with a nearly perfect copy of the First Trial Book.