Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature R (Delaware Museum, first revise, copy 1)

This is a complete copy of the first revise proof of Signature R (dated 9 May) and numbered 2a. The revise is especially interesting because it is the last printing to retain the footnote on page 241, which represents DGR's gloss on that important sonnet.

Besides this copy of the first revise, the Delaware Art Museum library has the following proof copies of Signature R: a corrected copy of the author's first proof, dated 5 May and numbered 1; two uncorrected copies of the first revise, this copy and another (undated); a copy of the second revise (dated 10 May 1881); and four copies of the third revise (none dated): WMR's copy, this uncorrected copy, a set of uncorrected proof sheets ; and two uncorrected copies, copy 1 and copy 2; and finally an uncorrected final proof (dated 27 May 1881 and numbered 5). The British Library proofs have another copy of the first author's proof for this signature (undated but marked 1).