Book Description

TENNYSON, Alfred (Lord). Poems. MDCCCXXX. MDCCCXXXIII. Canada: Privately printed 1862. Original printed wrappers. Most pages uncut on top edge, fore-edges untrimmed as issued, and apart from some fraying to the fore-edge of the oversized front wrapper, a three cm tear to the foot of the title page a Near Fine copy.
Dealer Notes
A pirated reprint of Tennyson's Poems Chiefly Lyrical (1830) and Poems (1833) which, interestingly, includes poems which were suppressed in subsequent authorised editions. As an illegal work it was compiled and edited by Coleridge's biographer James Dykes Campbell and printed in Toronto. It is not known how many copies were printed, but David Sinclair (Book Collector, Vol. 22, pp. 177-188) suggests a print run in the region of 150. The work was sold in London by John Camden Hotten, who apparently received about 50 copies from Canada. Hoten's plans were thwarted, however, when Tennyson obtained an injunction prohibiting the issue of the book.
Author TENNYSON, Alfred (Lord).
Date 1862
Binding Original printed wrappers.
Publisher Canada: Privately printed.
Condition Near Fine

Price: £30.00

Offered by William Cowan

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