Editor's annotated copy of a notorious piracy.- [Tennyson (Alfred, Lord)] Poems MDCCCXXX-MDCCCXXXIII, [edited by James Dykes Campbell], pirated edition, interleaved copy, James Dykes Campbell's copy with his ink ownership inscription to half-title and notes to endpapers, margins and occasionally to interleaves, 19th century blue morocco, spine a little darkened, original printed wrappers bound in, uncut, 8vo, [Toronto], Privately Printed, 1862.
⁂ A pirated edition of Tennyson's early poems, including numerous suppressed or altered works, collected together and published by James Dykes Campbell in Toronto. Campbell brought around 50 copies to the UK which were offered by the bookseller John Camden Hotten. Tennyson brought an immediate injunction against Hotten and his copies were ordered to be destroyed.
This copy appears to have been Campbell's own and include his autograph copies of various documents relating to the court case, as well as annotations replicating those by Tennyson in a copy belonging to William Hepworth Thompson (1810-1886, classical scholar, Master of Trinity College Cambridge and friend and correspondent of Tennyson's).
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