Lot Essay
Poet, critic, friend of Rossetti, William Morris and Tennyson, Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton looked after Swinburne at his home in Putney for the last 30 years of the poet's life (1879-1909).
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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Epipsychidion, London: for the Shelley Society, 1887. 8°, original blue-green printed boards (joints rubbed with losses, edges a little worn), partly uncut, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the half title "Walter Theodore Watts from Algernon Charles Swinburne". ONE OF 500 COPIES.
SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles. Rosamund, Queen of the Lombards, A Tragedy, London: Chatto & Windus, 1899. 8°, original cloth (soiled, some spotting to endpapers), partially uncut. FIRST EDITION.
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SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles. Rosamund, Queen of the Lombards, A Tragedy, London: Chatto & Windus, 1899. 8°, original cloth (soiled, some spotting to endpapers), partially uncut. FIRST EDITION.
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