Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature K (Delaware Museum, first revise proof, copy 3)

This is a complete (duplicate) copy (dated 22 April and numbered 3) of the first revise proof of Signature K of the Ballads and Sonnets volume. It is a printer's proof. The printer's note on p. 143 shows that this proof was used when the text was being augmented in later revises.

In addition to this complete first revise (printer's copy), the library of the Delaware Museum of Art contains the following proof materials for Signature K of DGR's Ballads and Sonnets volume: a complete copy of the first author's proof (dated 14 April and numbered 1); another complete copy (author's copy) of the first revise (also dated 22 April 1881 and numbered 3) as well as a compositor's duplicate (uncorrected, udated, unnumbered); a complete copy of the second revise (undated and numbered 1); an incomplete copy of the third revise (dated 31 May 81 and unnumbered); and a complete copy of the final revise (dated 2 Jun and unnumbered). The British Library proofs have another copy of the first author's proofs for this signature (dated 14 Apr 81 and numbered 1).