WATSON, William.

A Sonnet to Thomas Bailey Aldrich in Answer to His Sonnet "On Reading" "The Purple East."

First edition, printed to secure copyright. Single folded sheet to make four pages of 170 by 110 mm. London and New York: John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1896.

£115.00
WATSON, William.
A Sonnet to Thomas Bailey Aldrich in Answer to His Sonnet "On Reading" "The Purple East."

A fine copy, in which Watson thanks Aldrich for expressing his support in the sonnet while “half the wise and all the great” of Britain excoriated it.

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