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The Sonnet

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Production Description

Document Title: The Sonnet (British Library, fair copy manuscript)
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of composition: 1880
Type of Manuscript: fair copy manuscript with corrections and alternate readings
Collation: 1 small leaf

Provenance

Current Location: British Library, Ashley Collection
Catalog Number: Ashley 3857

Physical Description

Paper: One side of a quarto leaf of ruled white paper.
Watermark: J ALLEN & SONS / SUPER FINE
Other Physical Features: On the verso are various pencil doodles in different letter forms.
Facsimile images available for The Sonnet

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Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

This is an early fair copy of the poem, later titled Introductory Sonnet.

Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Source File: 1-1880.blms.rad.xml
Copyright: By permission of The British Library