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1862 Poems MDCCCXXX - MDCCCXXXIII
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Publishers' Original Binding, Signed, With Letter, With Slipcase
A collection of the early poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson, dating from 1830 to 1833, when Tennyson was in his 20s.
A pirated edition of Tennyson's early poems, forged by J. Dykes Campbell in collaboration with the bookseller John Camden Hotten.
With a loosely inserted letter from Campbell, dated 1891, on the letterhead of London's Savile Club, addressed to one W. Watts. In his short letter, Campbell recounts an evening after leaving the Club, and discusses sending a telegram.
Tennyson won a claim against Hotten for breach of copyright, but it seems likely that Dykes Campbell kept a number of copies which he then sold many years later.
Condition
In the publisher's original paper wraps. Externally, exceptionally bright, with small losses of paper to back strip head and tail. Light edgewear to fore edge of text block. Houses in the remnants of cloth covered slip case, lacking half of back strips, and with all joints tenderly held, and back strip repaired with tape. Internally, firmly bound. Light handling marks to preliminary leaves. Pages unopened at heads.
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