SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES. Autograph manuscript of a critical essay "Théophile [de Viau]," with occasional deletions and emendations, n.d. [1862?]. 19 pages, folio and 4to, written on the rectos of three leaves of blue paper and sixteen leaves of white, some age-toning, blank margins of first four pages slightly chipped, laid in a folding dark blue morocco case gilt, scuffed and cracked. [With:] A copy of: Théophile..., Edited by Edmund Gosse, C.B., London: Printed for Private Circulation [1915], 8vo, 35 pp., gray printed wrappers, uncut, as issued, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED EDITION, one of 20 copies printed by Thomas J. Wise from Swinburne's previously unpublished manuscript. Swinburne's essay on the seventeenth century poet Théophile de Viau "is so carefully written, so eloquent and so judicious, it belongs so characteristically to Swinburne's best period of prose, that... not one of his posthumous works more thoroughly deserves publication" (from Gosse's introduction). Wise, Ashley Library, vol. 7, p. 39. Case with bookplates of Jerome Kern and John Stewart Groves.

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SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES. Autograph manuscript of a critical essay "Théophile [de Viau]," with occasional deletions and emendations, n.d. [1862?]. 19 pages, folio and 4to, written on the rectos of three leaves of blue paper and sixteen leaves of white, some age-toning, blank margins of first four pages slightly chipped, laid in a folding dark blue morocco case gilt, scuffed and cracked. [With:] A copy of: Théophile..., Edited by Edmund Gosse, C.B., London: Printed for Private Circulation [1915], 8vo, 35 pp., gray printed wrappers, uncut, as issued, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED EDITION, one of 20 copies printed by Thomas J. Wise from Swinburne's previously unpublished manuscript. Swinburne's essay on the seventeenth century poet Théophile de Viau "is so carefully written, so eloquent and so judicious, it belongs so characteristically to Swinburne's best period of prose, that... not one of his posthumous works more thoroughly deserves publication" (from Gosse's introduction). Wise, Ashley Library, vol. 7, p. 39. Case with bookplates of Jerome Kern and John Stewart Groves.