8vo, so called "second" edition [in fact a reprint of the first edition with dedication page removed], new title page and revisions to two gatherings with two poems removed and four others added, divisional title after preliminaries, RICHARD GARNETT'S COPY, original dark purple cloth, label on spine, label chipped, upper hinge starting, spine rubbed

Richard Garnett, friend of the poet, ownership signature dated 14 December 1857; Lewis Kennedy Morse, bookplate

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Garnett worked with Patmore in the British Museum and became a close friend and sympathetic advisor and critic of the poet. He edited an anthology of Patmore's work in 1879.