Swinburne/Watts/Jerome Kern copy

Updated September 24, 2026

Lot number44
Estimate200.00 - 400.00 USD
AuctionFall Rare Books, Manuscripts, Historical Prints, & Ephemera
DateOctober 8, 2026 at 10:30 AM EDT
Auction houseQuinn's Auction Galleries
LocationFalls Church, Virginia

SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES; THEODORE WATTS] Collins, John Churton. Illustrations Of Tennyson. London: Chatto & Windus, 1891. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth; custom cloth chemise and slipcase. Provenance: Theodore Watts (ownership inscription, pencil annotations throughout); A.C. Swinburne (pencil annotations); Jerome Kern (book label; his sale, Anderson Galleries, January 1929, lot 1275). With extensive annotations by the English literary critic Theodore Watts as well as numerous barbed comments by Swinburne, including, on the title page beneath author's name, "Poor fool & knave, I have no part in my heart / that's sorry yet for thee. A.C.S.", and, next to a passage on p 103: "This is nonsense & dirt. ACS." Condition: Lacking front free endpaper, half of table of contents leaf missing, hinges cracked, corners bumped.

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