Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature D (Delaware Museum, final revise)

This final revise for Signature D prints all the revisions DGR called for in the earlier proofs. Although not date stamped, these revise proofs were probably printed off and sent to DGR in mid-May.

The library of the Delaware Art Museum has four sets of proofs for this signature, the first two numbered and date stamped by the printer Charles Whittingham, of Chiswick Press. In addition to this final revise (perfect, undated and without corrections), the museum also has a copy of the author's proofs undated), a duplicate of the latter, and a copy of the first revise(unnumbered, undated). The British Library also has a set of the first printer's revise (numbered 2; perfect, undated).

Also preserved in the Delaware Museum library is a loose sheet from a proof of this signature containing pages 41-42, with a correction on page 42 (line 258) by DGR in response to a marginal note on the page by WMR. These pages come from the set of proofs DGR was having sent to his brother in late April 1881 for comment and correction. This correction is first printed in these final proofs.