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POEMS: COPYRIGHT EDITION. WITH A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR BY FRANZ H�FFER (The Swinburne Presentation Copy)

by Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1873 [1878]. Revised edition, 16.5 x 12cm (8vo), in publisher's printed paper wraps, [i-vii] viii-xxvi [xxvii-xxviii], [1] 2-282, [283-284] pp., w/publ. adverts (dated May 1878) to verso of rear wrap, all enclosed in a custon-made red morocco folding wallet within a red morocco solander case w/gilt decorations, title, & raised bands to spine, made for A. Edward Newton (w/his gilt circled initial to spine) by "H. Zucker, Phila." (stamped in gilt to the inner side). Printed by the publisher. Inscribed by the author to half-title: "To Algernon Swinburne, with all affection, DG Rossetti 1879." Swinburne & Rossetti had been close friends for many years, but by the Spring of 1874 DGR had grown weary of his friend's deviant behaviour: "As for Swinburne I must say I now view him as the crowning nuisance of the whole world & have no longer the slightest toleration for his abominable ways" (DGR to Madox Brown, [8 Apr. 1874]; Doughty & Wahl #1470). DGR's anger was short-lived, as evidenced by his 6 July 1874 letter to Theodore Watts-Dunton: "As to the Tauchnitz, I should have thought it an impertinence to trouble Swinburne with a still further form of those out-of-date productions.... When I have anything worth offering [him], he will be one of those surest to get it" (ibid #1508). However, by mid-1878 DGR had reconsidered his assessment that his 1870 poems were "out-of-date" (perhaps due to the fact that for this issue he made revisions to "The Blessed Damozel"?): in July he asked F.S. Ellis to secure a dozen copies from Baron Tauchnitz "for presents," & it appears that Swinburne received one of the last of the 12 (by the end of Jan. 1879 DGR was making attempts to secure more copies, but these arrived in Jan. 1880). Provenance: Algernon Charles Swinburne; Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton; the Swinburne library sale, Sotheby Wilkinson & Hodge, 21 June 1916 (Lot 671); A. Edward Newton, w/his Oak Knoll bookplate (designed by Charles Grosvenor Osgood, & engr. by "S.L.S.") to half-title; the Newton library sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, NYC, 29 Oct. 1941 (Lot 143), sold for US$110; Donald & Mary Hyde (later Lady Eccles), w/their bookplate to verso of fr. wrap; thence to the beneficiary of Lady Eccles's library. Solander case Near-Fine (spine & adjoining rear edge sl. sunned); binding Fair (spine broken, & wraps soiled w/some loss to corners of fr. wrap); contents Near-Fine. Rossetti p.19, Fredeman p.92, Fennell p.9.