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THE BIBLIOGRAPHY
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1855.
The Charge of the Light Brigade (with prose note, signed by the author, dated "August, 1855"). Four pages, 4to., 1855.
A thousand copies were privately printed, for distribution among the soldiers before Sebastopol, who had a liking for the ballad: a copy of this privately-printed quarto sheet, in good preservation, is now of extreme rarity. I never saw any other copy than that preserved in the British Museum, in a folio volume containing miscellaneous ballads and broadsides.
Maud, and Other Poems, By Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate. London: Edward Moxon, 1855, green cloth, pp. 154.
Besides the principal poem, of which a portion had appeared as far back as 1837, in a miscellany entitled The Tribute, this volume contains: "The Brook," an Idyll; "The Letters"; "The Daisy" (written at Edinburgh); "Will"; "Lines to the Rev. F.D. Maurice" (all published for the first time); and, with some alterations, the "Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington" already published twice (1852, 1853) in a separate
