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(Hotten's Issue.)

Moxon continued to have The Queen Mother in his care until 1866, when the fierce outcry raised over Poems and Ballads, and his extreme nervousness thereat, brought about a second migration, and the two books, together with Chastelard, passed into the hands of John Camden Hotten, whose successors, Messrs. Chatto and Windus, have continued to act as Mr. Swinburne's publishers until the present day.

The original sheets had not yet become exhausted, and Hotten, cancelling Moxon's title-page, again issued them with one of his own. This reads as follows ::

The Queen Mother and Rosamond By Algernon Charles Swinburne / London / John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly 1866.

Issued in dark green sand-grained cloth boards, with white paper back-label; which reads:-The Queen-Mother, and Rosamond. Two Plays: | By | A. C. Swinburne | J. C. Hotten. | 1866. The letter-press of this label is again in red.

When making conveyance of his stock over to Hotten, Moxon must have handed him labels as well as quires,—for occasionally copies of the book occur having Moxon's label with Hotten's title-page.

(Second Edition.)

For the Second Edition of The Queen Mother and Rosamond the book was re-set throughout. The Title-page reads :—

The Queen-Mother and Rosamond. / By | Algernon
Charles Swinburne. / Second Edition. London: / John
Camden Hotten, Piccadilly. / 1868.
Collation:-Post octavo, pp. viii + 233; consisting of Half-title

(with blank reverse), pp. i-ii; Title-page, as above (with
blank reverse), pp. iii-iv; Dedication (with blank reverse),
pp. v-vi; list of Persons Represented (with blank reverse),
pp. vii-viii; and Text, pp. 1-233. There are head-lines
throughout, but no imprint occurs anywhere in the volume.

Issued in green straight-grained cloth boards, lettered in gilt across the back: "Queen- | Mother | and | Rosamond | Swinburne | 1868."

(3.)

[DEAD LOVE: 1864.]

Dead Love. / By / Algernon C. Swinburne. / London / John W. Parker and Son, West Strand. / 1864.

Collation :-Crown octavo, pp. 15; consisting of Half-title (with ✓ blank reverse), pp. 1-2; Title-page, as above (with imprint-"London : / Savill and Edwards, Printers, Chandos Street, / Covent Garden."-in the centre of the reverse), pp. 3-4; and Text pp. 5-15. The head-line is Dead Love throughout, on both sides of the page. The imprint is repeated at the foot of p. 15.

Issued in brick-red coloured paper wrappers, with the title-page reproduced upon the front. There is a copy in the British Museum.

A little book of great rarity, and of extreme interest. The story (in prose) had previously appeared in Once-a-Week, vol. vii, October 1862, pp. 432-434, where it was accompanied by an illustration upon wood by M. J. Lawless, here reproduced in fac-simile. The story has never been reprinted, and in all probability never will be.

(4.)

[ATALANTA IN CALYDON: 1865.]

Atalanta in Calydon. / A Tragedy. / By / Algernon Charles Swinburne. / Τοὺς ζῶντας εὖ δρᾶν· κατθανὼν δὲ πᾶς ἀνὴς Γῆ καὶ σκιὰ· τὸ μηδὲν εἰς ὀυδὲν ῥέπει. / Eur. Fr. Mel 2o. (537.) /London :/ Edward Moxon & Co., 44, Dover Street. / 1865. Collation :-Small Quarto, pp. xii + 111; consisting of Half-title

(with blank reverse), pp. i-ii; Title-page, as above (with (imprint-" London : / Richard Barrett, Printer, / Mark

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Fac-simile of the Drawing by M. J. LAWLESS, In illustration of Swinburne's Dead Love.

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