Swinburne, Algernon Charles

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

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Description

Swinburne, Algernon Charles
"Cyril Tourneur", autograph working manuscript
ink on paper and leather

revised throughout, signed at the end, text on rectos, 25 numbered pages with notes and additions on three facing versos, altogether 28 pages, blue paper, folio (322 x 205mm), c.1887, each leaf individually mounted on a guard, in green morocco gilt, inside dentelles, gilt lettering on upper cover, spine in six compartments

Provenance

[? Theodore Watts-Dunton; Walter M. Hill, book dealer, of Chicago;] John Whipple Frothingham, armorial bookplate

Catalogue Note

Swinburne's essay on Tourneur was first published in The Nineteenth Century in March 1887 and was then reprinted in The Age of Shakespeare (1908).