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Toronto, 1862. Original Wraps. Collectible; Very Good. This scarce volume was compiled and edited by J. Dykes Campbell. It consists of poems which Tennyson did not reprint in his first collected edition of 1842 but which had appeared in the "Poems Chiefly Lyrical" in 1830 and "Poems", 1833. This is a pirated edition out of Toronto, anonymously publshed, and John Camden Hotten, who tried to put it on the English market, was fined 100 pounds and made to deliver up all copies for destruction. A bright, remarkably well-preserved, unopened copy. Crisp and VG+ in its original blue wrappers, with light toning to the rear panel. Light, forgivable foxing as well at the preliminaries. Housed in a custom-made quarter-morocco box.