Paolo & Francesca: A Tragedy in Four Acts.

£75 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

An interesting copy, inscribed by the author on the half title with his signed quotation of the last line of a famous passage from Paolo and Francesca: “So still it is that we might almost hear The sigh of all the sleepers in the world. And all the rivers running to the sea” In addition to the inscription there are a couple of mysterious interventions, both relating to his Marpessa: the first is the neat excision of an ecstatic notice for it from William Watson, and the second is a revision (in pencil, in a proof-reader’s hand) of the advertisement for the same work, with the removal of reference to illustrations by Oliver Onions and an increase in the price of the limp leather copies.

• Binding: Hardcover

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