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Helen's Tower, Clandeboye.

Accession number
PML 131320
Published
[Clandeboye, Ireland] : Privately printed, [1862]
Credit line
Bequest; Gordon N. Ray; 1987.
Notes
1st ed., 2nd issue.
Engraved t.p. with vignette of the tower.
For a full description of this work, see T.J. Wise: The Ashley library, v. 7 (1925) p. 122-123.
Includes: Helen's tower/ Robert Browning. April 26, 1870. Poem beginning "Who dreams of 'Helen's tower' may dream perchance." (1 sheet laid in case).
Probably compiled by the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava who had erected the tower in honor of his mother. Includes the Baroness of Dufferin and Clandeboye's poem "To my dear son on his 21st birthday" and Tennyson's ten-line poem beginning "Helen's tower, here I stand ..." Tennyson's poem was later published, with 2 added lines, in his Tiresias and other poems (1885).
Description
2 p. ℓ., [3]-5 p., 1 ℓ. ;25 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
pink wrappers, in case.
Classification
Department