The White Ship
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Production Description
Document Title: The White Ship - Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1880
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of composition: 1878-1880
Type of Manuscript: fair copy
Collation: [i-iv], 1-31
Note: The manuscript is on 17 quarto leaves written on the recto sides only.
Provenance
Current Location: British Museum Library, Ashley Collection
Catalog Number: Ashley 3855
Physical Description
Paper: ruled white laid paper
Watermark: RW[?]
Dimensions of Document: 22 x 17.5 cm
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Copyright: By permission of the British Library
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Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This bound volume was put together by T. J. Wise to house the holograph manuscript of the ballad, along with the 1881 printed text from the Ballads and Sonnets volume.