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Excerpt from Swinburne's Proof Sheets and American First Editions: Bibliographical Data Relating to a Few of the Publications of Algernon Charles Swinburne, With Notes on the Priority of Certain Claimants to the Distinction of "Editio Princeps"
Swinburne's life was one of many quarrels and fiery con?icts with friends, authors and publishers.
The most bitter of all these was that with Robert Buchanan; and Mr. Wise devotes many pages to this controversy. 'under the Microscope, ' 1872, was Swinburne's reply to the attack made by Buchanan upon Rossetti and himself in 'the Fleshly School of Poetry.' The edition consisted of five hundred copies. Immediately one leaf was cancelled, only four or five copies being preserved, and a reprinted leaf with the changed passage rela tive to the characters in Tennyson's 'idylls of the King, ' was pasted on the stub. In the Harry Elkins Widener Collection are two copies, one with the original leaf, and the other with the reprinted one, and also the manuscript apparently as it went to the printer. Mr. Wise prints many letters and manuscripts concerning this controversy, which have not previously been published. 'under the Microscope' was never reprinted in England, but Mosher published an edition in 1899, which gives the text of the reprinted leaf, not the original.
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