BIB_ID
225089
Accession number
MA 5008.2
Creator
Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893.
Display Date
[1859-1861].
Credit line
Bequest of Robert D. Brewster, 1995.
Description
1 item (70 p.), bound ; 20.3 cm
Notes
With an autograph note on the front fly-leaf "These verses date from October 1859" and below in pencil "to about Oct. 1861." The front fly-leaf also contains an introductory sonnet, which begins "To offer set apology for this."
Provenance
Horatio Brown; Edmund Gosse (his bookplate); purchased by Robert D. Brewster from the New York dealer Barnet J. Beyer in 1940; bequest of Robert D. Brewster, 1995.
Summary
A long poem dedicated to "W" [i.e., Wright, a fellow student at Oxford], divided into three parts, each of which is separately paginated by Symonds. Written on the rectos (and two versos) of 70 leaves, with a few minor corrections in pencil.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (22.5 cm)
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