The Angel in the House: Books I & II: The First Editions Collated with his original Holograph Manuscript

Patmore (Coventry).  Compiled by Patricia Aske. Edited by Ian Anstruther Frontispiece portrait, facsimiles Haggeston Press and Boston College,  1998 First Collated Edition  Two volumes 4to Half brown cloth, marbled paper sides Fine copy in slipcase  The first volume presents, on each two-page spread, a facsimile of the manuscript on the left-hand page (column 1). On the right-hand page there is a printed transcription of the manuscript (column 2), each line as it appeared in the first edition (column 4), while column 3 is used to highlight variants between manuscript and printed versions. Finally, column 5 shows the location in the first edition of lines which have been moved from their position in the manuscript and those manuscript lines which never found their way into the printed version. The second volume provides facsimile printings of the first editions of the two books on the poem: The Betrothal (1854) and The Espousals (1856). 

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