Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Edited Text and Apparatus
- List of Abbreviations and Sigla
- Introduction
- Texts and Notes
- Part I Youth and Change
- Part II Change and Fate
- Appendix One Dating and Ordonnance
- Appendix Two Poems: Proof States
- Appendix Three Poems: Chronology 1868–71
- Appendix Four Poems: Bibliographical Summaries
- Appendix Five Ballads and Sonnets (1881): Chronology 1879–82
- Appendix Six Ballads and Sonnets: Bibliographical Summaries
- Appendix Seven Locations of Sources: Concise Survey of Manuscripts, Proofs and Other Documents
- Appendix Eight Unpublished and Excluded Sonnets
- Bibliography of Works Cited or Consulted
Appendix Six - Ballads and Sonnets: Bibliographical Summaries
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 March 2023
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Edited Text and Apparatus
- List of Abbreviations and Sigla
- Introduction
- Texts and Notes
- Part I Youth and Change
- Part II Change and Fate
- Appendix One Dating and Ordonnance
- Appendix Two Poems: Proof States
- Appendix Three Poems: Chronology 1868–71
- Appendix Four Poems: Bibliographical Summaries
- Appendix Five Ballads and Sonnets (1881): Chronology 1879–82
- Appendix Six Ballads and Sonnets: Bibliographical Summaries
- Appendix Seven Locations of Sources: Concise Survey of Manuscripts, Proofs and Other Documents
- Appendix Eight Unpublished and Excluded Sonnets
- Bibliography of Works Cited or Consulted
Summary
First Edition:
Ballads and Sonnets/ by / Dante Gabriel Rossetti. / London: /Ellis and White, / 29, New Bond Street, W. / 1881. Crown 8vo. [A6+1] B–I8 K–L8 M8+1 N–U8 X Y8 pp. [i–iv] [2] [v]–xii [1–3] 4–159 [160] [2] [161–63] 164–335 [336] 1 leaf at the end advertises, recto, DGR's Poems: New and Dante and His Circle [EIP reissued] The dedication to TWD, tipped in after the title-page, and the divisional title for HL, tipped in before Sig. M, are both unnumbered cancel leaves. Pp. 185–86 are also a cancel-leaf but do not disrupt numbering sequence.
The Ballads and Sonnets … were fully in print by 16 September, and various copies were distributed. The full publication ensued on 17 October. The book was a thorough success, for by the 25th of the latter month the first edition of 1000 copies was exhausted; and before the end of November 2000 copies altogether had been issued and paid for. (FLM 374)
Binding was the same as that for Poems, again signed ‘De Lacy’. Lettering on the spine reads:
Ballads and Sonnets D. G. Rossetti
Variants:
WMR states that thirty copies were printed on large paper (Bibliography No. 24) but the Certificate of Issue in these copies, which appears centered on the verso of the half-title (blank in regular copies), reads: ‘Twenty-five Copies printed on large paper for Subscribers only.’ This issue is printed on Whatman's hand-made paper, demy octavo, bound in blue-grey paper-covered boardsbacked with white, with white paper back-label, lettered ‘Ballads / and / Sonnets / By / D. G. Rossetti’. Some copies have the goldstamped De Lacy binding but plain white endpapers. The Ellis advertisement appears at the end. Page 238 is misprinted 38; in regular copies this page is correctly numbered. On p. 180, line 14 of Sonnet 18, Genius in Beauty, has the fourth edition reading. Collation details otherwise agree with the first edition.
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- The House of Life by Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Sonnet-SequenceA Variorum Edition with Introduction and Notes, pp. 274 - 277Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2007