NOTE 364. A GHOSTLY EDITION OF PATMORE'S THE CIRCLES '1861'.
Contained in The Book Collector, Volume 22, No. 3, Autumn 1973. Pp. 289-432(including advertisements), 15 plates; demy 8vo; printed stiff orange/pink paper wrappers, top edge of lower wrapper slightly soiled; tiny stain to top edge of a couple of leaves; The Book Collector, London, 1973. *Todd's contribution on pages 383-4 is Note 364 in the Bibliographical Notes & Queries section. A bibliographical 'ghost' is 'a non-existent book or edition or issue erroneously included in some work of reference which by repetition has achieved a misleading semblance of reality' [p. 384]. Todd points out that in his bibliography of Tennyson, and later in the final Ashley Library volume, Wise created a 'ghost' edition of Coventry Patmore's The Circles. Item #160034
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