Poems. A New Edition (1881), proof Signature A (Delaware Museum, first author's proof, copy 1 fragment)

This is a corrected copy of four pages from the first author's proof of DGR's 1881 Poems. A New Edition . It was probably printed off in June 1881.

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 the complete final proof , the library 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, this copy and copy 2; and two partial copies of the first revise, copy 1and copy 2, both also with revisions. The Princeton Library has two further fragmentary proofs for ths signature, both corrected pages for the revise proof: copy 1 and copy 2.