Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Queen-Mother and Rosamond (Moxon, 1860)

Swinburne, Algernon Charles, THE QUEEN-MOTHER AND ROSAMOND (London: Edward Moxon & Co., 1860).  Unstated second edition, first state, 17 x 10.5cm (small 8vo), in publisher's olive sand-grain cloth w/paper title-label to spine, pale yellow ep.s, [i-viii], [1] 2-217 [218-20] pp. w/titlepage cancel mounted on a stub.  Printed at the Chiswick Press, London.  Binding Very Good (title-label darkened & moderately chipped, & extremities sl. rubbed); contents Near-Fine.  See Slater p.290.  (Inv. #788)  C$500   Swinburne's 1st book, printed in 250 copies & ready for issue by late Oct. 1860.  However, Swinburne reconsidered & asked Pickering, the original publisher, to alter the title to The Queen-Mother, Rosamond, Two Plays, under which the book was finally issued in Jan. 1861 (ECB).  By July 1865 Moxon had acquired the remaining sheets from Pickering, & re-issued the book w/his imprint on a cancelled titlepage, apparently without consulting the author (in Moxon's edition the title reverts to the original).  Our copy is a variant lacking the Errata leaf found in most early issues. Home Page