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SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES. Love's Cross-Currents. A Year's Letters. London: Chatto & Windus 1905. 8vo, original dark blue cloth, spine faded with top edge slightly frayed, cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author on the half-title: "To Mrs. [M.F.] Prothero with kind remembrances from AC Swinburne, Jan. 7th, 1906" (the recipient was evidently the wife of George W. Prothero, editor of the Quarterly Revies, and a noted hostess of her day). Wise Swinburne 108; Tinker 2037 (noting a 1901 Thomas B. Mosher edition as the first). Armorial bookplate of John Caldwell Beveridge.

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SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES. Love's Cross-Currents. A Year's Letters. London: Chatto & Windus 1905. 8vo, original dark blue cloth, spine faded with top edge slightly frayed, cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author on the half-title: "To Mrs. [M.F.] Prothero with kind remembrances from AC Swinburne, Jan. 7th, 1906" (the recipient was evidently the wife of George W. Prothero, editor of the Quarterly Revies, and a noted hostess of her day). Wise Swinburne 108; Tinker 2037 (noting a 1901 Thomas B. Mosher edition as the first). Armorial bookplate of John Caldwell Beveridge.