Poems. MDCCCXXX. MDCCCXXXIII. TENNYSON (Alfred, Lord).

Small square 8vo. [169 x 133 x 10 mm]. viii, 112 pp. Original blue printed wrappers, uncut, preserved in a blue cloth clamshell box, lettered in gilt.

[Toronto]: Privately printed, 1862

With Henry Sothern Ltd Bookseller's label to verso of front wrapper. A fine unopened copy of a pirated reprint of the 1830 and 1833 volumes, including the 23 poems and sonnets of the 1830 volume, and five from 1833, which were suppressed in subsequent authorised editions.

This edition was compiled and printed in Canada by J. Dykes Campbell. Only about 150 copies are thought to have been produced and they were put on the market in England by John Camden Hotten. He described them as "the choice poems that have been dropped or thrown aside by the Poet during his literary career". Tennyson brought suit against Hotten for breach of copyright, and the latter was forced to make an apology, pay £100 and deliver up all remaining copies for destruction.

Stock no. ebc9169