1853.
Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington. A New Edition, 8vo., in wrapper, pp. 16. London: Edward Moxon, 1853.
This edition contains, in the second stanza, a line not contained in the first edition, and omitted in all subsequent issues of the poem. Considerable alterations and additions were made throughout, adopted in the later and current text of the poem, as it reappeared in the "Maud" volume, and in collected editions of the poet's works. It is of much greater rarity than the first edition. The only copy I ever possessed was purchased at Cambridge, in 1874 or 1875, at the original price of one shilling, of Messrs. Macmillan and Co., who then apparently held a small remainder of it (which, however, they kept carefully in the background, declining to part with a second copy), long before they became Tennyson's publishers; and the late Mr. B. M. Pickering, if I remember rightly, gave me ten shillings for this copy on my return to London. I never, before or since, saw another, except the bound copy in the British Museum.
Poems by Alfred Tennyson. Eighth Edition, in one volume, pp. 379, green cloth. London: Edward Moxon, 1853.
