Unpublished verses / by Algernon Charles Swinburne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Bonnell, Henry H. (Henry Houston), 1859-1926 (autograph) (donor)

Physical Description:

iv pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

[London] : [R.H. Shepherd], 1866 [that is, 1888]

Notes:

"A simple piracy, and was printed at the instance of the late Richard Herne Shepherd", possibly "in March, 1888"--Wise, T.J. Ashley Library VI, p. 172. W.R. Todd includes this among the piracies of Wise in "A handlist of Thomas J. Wise" in Thomas J. Wise centenary studies, p. 106. The conclusion of N. Barker and J. Collins, in A sequel to An enquiry into the nature of certain nineteenth century pamphlets, is that this work is a piracy by Shepherd, taken over as a speculation by the forgers [i.e. Wise and H.B. Forman]. Cf. Sequel, p. 239-240.

Wise identifies two issues: "the first with the author's name measuring two inches, and a reprint in which it is spaced out to 2 3/8 inches"; Barker and Collins report that the name measures three inches in all copies seen.

The text of the poem (p. [iii]-iv) is from Swinburne's "Hesperia," though in a slightly different order from the first published text. Cf. Barker & Collins.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of Henry H. Bonnell.

OCLC:

25057358