Poems (1870): Printer's copy MS for first edition proofs front matter Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 Poems. Dante Gabriel Rossetti F. S. Ellis Strangeways and Walden London 1870 February This is DGR's manuscript for the printer. 4 pages DGR DGR DGR U. of British Columbia Library, Colbeck Collection Commentary
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This is one manuscript leaf folded into four sides. It contains DGR's directions for the printing of the front matter for his 1870 <xref doc="a.1-1870.raw">Poems</xref> . The text must have been made sometime in February 1870; it was used for setting the type for the first proof.

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This is the first page of a sheet folded to make four pages, with text on the first, third, and fourth sides. Poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti ------- (query address?) F. S. Ellis, 33 King Street, Covent Garden. 1870 This is the fourth page of the folded sheet. Print this at back of Dedication in the small type used in the Italian song at page 182-183 Directions to the printer

(Many poems in this volume were written between 1847 and 1853. Others are of recent date, and a few belong to the intervening period. It has been thought unnecessary to specify the earlier work, as nothing is included which the author does not believe to be matured to the measure of his powers.)

 blank page This is the third page of the folded sheet. This dedication to be divided and punctuated as above. See overpage Directions to the printer To To William Michael Rossetti, These Poems, to so many of which, so many years back, he gave the first brotherly hearing, are now at last dedicated.