Lyrics, &c. (Princeton/Troxell bound manuscript volume)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Production Description
Document Title: Lyrics, &c.
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of composition: 1880-1881
Collation: [cover sheet], 1-22
Note: The texts were written and gathered for the printer in 1881-1882 but the collection was bound much
later by Charles Fairfax Murray.
Scribe: DGR
Provenance
Current Location: Princeton University Library
Catalog Number: 23289
Note: As the bookplate on the endpapers shows, the volume was owned and put together by Charles Fairfax Murray.
Physical Description
Watermark: J ALLEN & SONS / SUPERFINE
Dimensions of Document: 22.2 x 18.1 cm
Other Physical Features: The watermark of the coversheet is different: GURNEY / IVORY LAID
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Copyright: Princeton University Library, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
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Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This volume, bound up by Fairfax Murray, represents the printer's copy manuscripts of the poems that were printed in the third section of DGR's 1881 Ballads and Sonnets volume. The individual manuscripts represent states of the poems with readings that were subsequently removed in the published text. Cancelled readings also abound in the manuscripts, which also sometimes lack readings that DGR later added.