much more than that.
“St. Irvyne,” 1811, morocco uncut, Sir C. S. Forbes, 1897, £16, 10s.
“An Address to the Irish People” (Dublin, 1812) was published at 5d., and Mr. Slater values a copy at £8 to £12, but one was sold at Alfred Crampton’s sale, 1896, for £42.
“Queen Mab,” 1813, in the original boards, was sold in 1891 for £22, 10s.
“The Refutation of Deism,” 1814, fetched £33 at an auction in 1887.
The largest price, however, given for one of these pamphlets was £130 for “Œdipus Tyrannus,” 1820, at Crampton’s sale. The entire impression was destroyed except seven copies, only two or three of which are known to exist, but a reprint on vellum appeared in 1876. The British Museum possesses a copy, presented by Lady Shelley.
Tennyson.—The first editions of Tennyson’s Poems bring high prices, and the scarcest is the famous “Poems by Two Brothers,” 1827, published for 5s., and large paper for