A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL LIST OF THE SCARCER WORKS AND UNCOLLECTED WRITINGS OF ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE.
Pp. 114(last erratum)+[4](Ashley Library device, 'In Preparation' list, and blanks), frontispiece, plus 7 plates, 2 text illustrations, appendix; demy 8vo; navy cloth, spine lettered in gilt, upper board with gilt rule border, lower board with blind rule border, top fore-corners lightly bruised, cloth a trifle rubbed, spine gilt slightly dulled; uncut and partly unopened; upper hinge starting, the text block slightly browned, a couple of small edge splits; printed only for private subscribers, London, 1897. Edition limited to 50 copies. *A revised offprint of Wise's Swinburne contribution to Literary Anecdotes of the Nineteenth Century. [Todd 186a]. Part II, Uncollected Contributions to Periodical Literature, begins with poems by 'A.C.S.' contributed to Fraser's Magazine, starting in 1849. Wilfred Partington devotes several pages to the saga of Wise's attribution of these poems to the [very] young Swinburne, and his subsequent printing of the poems. 'What a day was that when Wise through his private-printings . . . could display little Algernon as a poet-just-turned-eleven! And what a nuisance it was that he never wrote those poems' [Partington, p. 167]. Item #157495
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