Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature B (Delaware Museum, third revise, printer's copy)

This imperfect and unmarked set of proofs for Signature B (dated 22 April 81) is a duplicate of the third revise. A perfect set of the third revise exists with WMR's notes and suggested revisions.

The library of the Delaware Art Museum has six distinct sets of proofs for this signature, each but the last numbered and all date stamped by the printer Charles Whittingham, of Chiswick Press. In addition to this imperfect set of third rvise proofs, the other sets at Delaware are: the the first author's corrected proofs (numbered 1; perfect, dated 5 April), the set that he retained in his possession; a first printer's revise (numbered 2; imperfect, dated 7 April); a second printer's revise (numbered 4; perfect, dated 14 April); a third printer's revise (numbered 5, perfect, dated 22 April, with WMR's notes and corrections), which duplicates this proof; and what appears to be the final proof (unnumbered; perfect, dated 21 May). The Delaware library also has a fragment (pages 9-10) of what must have once been a complete second copy of the first revise proof. The British Library has a nearly complete set of proofs for DGR's book, including the first author's corrected proofs for this signature.