Accession number:
PML 131321
Published:
[Clandeboye, Ireland] : Privately printed, [1862]
Description:
2 p. ℓ., [3]-5 p., i ℓ. ; 25 cm.
Credit:
Bequest; Gordon N. Ray; 1987.
Notes:
Includes hand-written autograph letter from Dufferin to Robert Browning, concerning this publication of his mother's poetry, dated 16 April 1870, tipped in front.
Engraved t.p. with vignette of the tower.
1st ed., 2nd issue.
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).
For a full description of this work, see T.J. Wise: The Ashley library, v. 7 (1925) p. 122-123.
Variant Title:
To my dear son on his 21st birthday
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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