Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature K (Delaware Museum, incomplete
copy of the third revise)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Production Description
Document Title: Ballads and Sonnets
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Publisher: F. S. Ellis
Printer: Chiswick Press, C. Whittingham and Co.
City of publication: London
Date of publication: 1881 May 31
Pre-Publication Information: proof
Pagination: 129-132, 139-144
Issue: 5
Authorization: DGR
Provenance
Current Location: Library, Delaware Art Museum
Physical Description
Point: 10 point; 6 point leading
Font: roman
Lines per Page: 17
Margin top: 2 cm
Margin bottom: 3.8 cm
Margin right: 2 cm
Margin left: 2.5 cm
Dimensions of Document: 19 x 12.8cm (crown octavo)
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
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Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This is an incomplete copy (dated 31 May 1881) of the third revise of Signature K of the Ballads and Sonnets volume.
Textual History: Revision
In addition to this incomplete third revise, the library of the Delaware Museum of Art contains the following proof materials for Signature K of DGR's Ballads and Sonnets volume: and a complete copy of the first author's proof (dated 14 Apr 81 and numbered 1); a complete compositor's copy of the first revise (undated and unnumbered); a complete author's copy of the first revise and a complete duplicate of that (both dated 22 April 1881 and numbered 3); a complete copy of the second revise (undated and numbered 1); and a complete copy of the final proof (dated 2 June 81 and unnumbered). The British Library proofs have another copy of the first author's proofs for this signature (dated 14 Apr 81 and numbered 1).