Poems. A New Edition (Signature A, partial, Princeton 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: 1881 June
Pagination: [vii]
Authorization: DGR
Corrector: DGR
Provenance
Current Location: Princeton U. Library, Troxell Collection
Catalog Number: 23310
Physical Description
Dimensions of Document: 19 x 12.8 cm
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
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Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This is a page from the second revise proof for the front matter of DGR's 1881 Poems. A New Edition. It was probably printed off in June 1881. From this was printed the final proof for the edition, a perfect copy of which is preserved in the library of the Delaware Art Museum.
The duplicate of this page, with DGR's more explicit note to the printer, is also at Princeton. That copy also has one further correction to the text.
Textual History: Revision
DGR revised the initial proofs for the front matter for this book twice, and the library of the Delaware Art Museum preserves six partial sets of earlier proofs for this signature where one can track DGR's successive acts of revision. In addition to a complete final proof, Delaware has a corrected copy of pages i-iv plus an uncorrected revise for those pages; two copies (both partial) of the first author's proof, copy 1 and copy 2; and two partial copies of the first revise, copy 1 and copy 2 , both also with revisions. Besides this proof page, the Princeton Library has another duplicate corrected proof page.