Percy Bysshe Shelley
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Production Description
Document Title: SONNET ON PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY - D.G. ROSSETTI - 1881
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of composition: 1881
Type of Manuscript: fair copy
Collation: [i-iii], [1-2]
Note: This bound volume was put together by T. J. Wise to house DGR's fair
copy manuscript. Wise added the book's elaborate title.
Provenance
Current Location: British Museum Library, Ashley Collection
Catalog Number: Ashley 3860
Physical Description
Paper: lined white paper
Dimensions of Document: 16 x 22 cm
Other Physical Features: This is a leaf torn from one of DGR's typical notebooks.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Copyright: By permission of the British Library
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Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
Th is a corrected copy of the sonnet made from the draft copy in the Library of Congress.
T. J. Wise bound this booklet for DGR's fair copy of his Shelley sonnet, followed by a printed copy and artistic title page with a portrait of Shelley as a frontispiece. The booklet cover is red levant morrocco bound by Riviere with an embossed or stamped title. Paper is Whatman's hand-made, uncut in the original blue-grey paper boards, backed with white, with white paper back-label.