SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES. Autograph manuscript leaf, on the recto the first draft of a portion of Act IV, Scene i, of the verse tragedy Chastelard, 1 page, folio, about 36 lines (including deleted lines), on the verso the first draft of the five closing stanzas of the poem "Cleopatra," 1 page, folio, about 45 lines (including a number of deleted lines), both sides written in brown ink with extensive revisions, a tiny burn hole affecting a letter, small portion of one edge folded over a bit, in small 4to brown cloth portfolio (with Jerome Kern bookplate, his sale lot 1215) in brown half morocco slipcase with book that follows , n.p., n.d. [Oxford, probably 1858-9]. The portion of Chastelard begins with the Queen's soliloquy and ends with her reply to Mary Beaton (pp. 154-7 of the first edition), "Cleopatra" was first published as a pamphlet by John Camden Hotten in 1866; Chastelard, a Tragedy, London: Edward Moxon, 1865, small 8vo, original blue cloth, worn, loose in binding, in brown half morocco slipcase with above manuscript , FIRST EDITION, bookplates of Mary C. Cady-Borlase and Arthur B. Springarn; Set of proof sheets for the first edition of Chastelard [London: Moxon, 1865], 12mo, contemporary binder's red cloth, spine gilt-lettered, slightly worn, the first page (a fly-title) dust-soiled, red morocco pull-off case , printed without preliminaries or imprint on proofing paper, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author on verso of the above mentioned fly-title: "Proof sheets, From the author Algernon C. Swinburne to R.S.," CORRECTED BY SWINBURNE in ink on 11 pages: four punctuation corrections, six spelling corrections, a one-word revision, a two-word revision, and a ten-word direction to the printer. See Wise Swinburne , I, 89-94, 139-144. (3)
SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES. Autograph manuscript leaf, on the recto the first draft of a portion of Act IV, Scene i, of the verse tragedy Chastelard, 1 page, folio, about 36 lines (including deleted lines), on the verso the first draft of the five closing stanzas of the poem "Cleopatra," 1 page, folio, about 45 lines (including a number of deleted lines), both sides written in brown ink with extensive revisions, a tiny burn hole affecting a letter, small portion of one edge folded over a bit, in small 4to brown cloth portfolio (with Jerome Kern bookplate, his sale lot 1215) in brown half morocco slipcase with book that follows , n.p., n.d. [Oxford, probably 1858-9]. The portion of Chastelard begins with the Queen's soliloquy and ends with her reply to Mary Beaton (pp. 154-7 of the first edition), "Cleopatra" was first published as a pamphlet by John Camden Hotten in 1866; Chastelard, a Tragedy, London: Edward Moxon, 1865, small 8vo, original blue cloth, worn, loose in binding, in brown half morocco slipcase with above manuscript , FIRST EDITION, bookplates of Mary C. Cady-Borlase and Arthur B. Springarn; Set of proof sheets for the first edition of Chastelard [London: Moxon, 1865], 12mo, contemporary binder's red cloth, spine gilt-lettered, slightly worn, the first page (a fly-title) dust-soiled, red morocco pull-off case , printed without preliminaries or imprint on proofing paper, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author on verso of the above mentioned fly-title: "Proof sheets, From the author Algernon C. Swinburne to R.S.," CORRECTED BY SWINBURNE in ink on 11 pages: four punctuation corrections, six spelling corrections, a one-word revision, a two-word revision, and a ten-word direction to the printer. See Wise Swinburne , I, 89-94, 139-144. (3)
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