Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature O (Delaware Museum, complete
first revise, uncorrected copy)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Production Description
Document Title: Ballads and Sonnets
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Publisher: F. S. Ellis
Printer: Chiswick Press, C. Whittingham and Co.
City of publication: London
Date of publication: 1881 May 6
Pre-Publication Information: proof
Pagination: 193-208
Issue: 2
Authorization: DGR
Collation: O
8
Provenance
Current Location: Library, Delaware Art Museum
Physical Description
Point: 10 point; 6 point leading
Font: roman
Lines per Page: 17
Margin top: 2 cm
Margin bottom: 3.8 cm
Margin right: 2 cm
Margin left: 2.5 cm
Dimensions of Document: 19 x 12.8 cm (crown octavo)
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
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Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This is an uncorrected copy of the first revise for Signature O (undated and numbered 2c) in the Delaware Art Museum library. The library also has an author's corrected copy as well as another uncorrected copy, all dated 6 May 1881.
Textual History: Revision
Besides this uncorrected first revise proof copy, the Delaware Art Museum library has the following proof copies of Signature O: the author's first proof (corrected, dated 3 May 1881 and numbered 1); three copies of the first revise, the author's corrected copy, and two uncorrected copies, copy 1 and this copy (all dated 6 May 1881 and numbered 2a, 2b, and 2c respectively); the author's corrected copy and an uncorrected copy (undated and numbered 3b) of the second revise; four copies of the third revise, including a complete corrected author's copy, an incomplete corrected author's copy , plus two uncorrected copies, uncorrected copy 1 and uncorrected (partial) copy 2; and an uncorrected and undated copy of the final proof (numbered 5). The British Library proofs have another copy of revise proofs for this signature (dated 3 May).