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Swinburne, Algernon Charles
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3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description
- Siena. London: john Camden Hotten, 1868.
- Paper, ink, leather
8vo (172 x 115 mm). Original plain yellow wrappers bound in. Black morocco with gilt turn-ins by Riviere & Son.
one of only six copies printed by Hotten to secure copyright. An entirely genuine example and not a Wise forgery or Hotten reprint.
Famed collector John A Spoor was well aware of the risk involved when adding a copy of Siena to his library. Tipped into the front of this volume is a four page 1908 letter from B F Stevens & Brown booksellers, which goes into exacting detail on the points on which an original copyright issue can be identified versus a Wise forgery. Five points are given including the 1/8th inch difference in line length between the genuine and spurious and the placement of the letters p and e in relation to a semi-colon in the fifth line of the last verse. Interestingly, the presence of a period after "Piccadilly" on the title page is not mentioned.
Stevens accounts for five of the six copies, noting variant colors to the wrappers, with orange occurring on two and the example in the British Museum lacking them entirely. One of the rarest of Swinburniana.
one of only six copies printed by Hotten to secure copyright. An entirely genuine example and not a Wise forgery or Hotten reprint.
Famed collector John A Spoor was well aware of the risk involved when adding a copy of Siena to his library. Tipped into the front of this volume is a four page 1908 letter from B F Stevens & Brown booksellers, which goes into exacting detail on the points on which an original copyright issue can be identified versus a Wise forgery. Five points are given including the 1/8th inch difference in line length between the genuine and spurious and the placement of the letters p and e in relation to a semi-colon in the fifth line of the last verse. Interestingly, the presence of a period after "Piccadilly" on the title page is not mentioned.
Stevens accounts for five of the six copies, noting variant colors to the wrappers, with orange occurring on two and the example in the British Museum lacking them entirely. One of the rarest of Swinburniana.
Provenance
John A Spoor (bookplate after an Emery Walker design); Sold Park Bernet, 5 May 1939, part of lot 930.