Aceldama

 

 

Published under the pseudonym of “A Gentleman of the University of Cambridge” presumably in honor of Shelley who published his St. Irvyne; or the Rosicrucian: a Romance as “a gentleman of the University of Oxford.”

 

Published Date:

circa April 1898

Publisher:

Leonard Smithers (Privately Printed)

Printer:

Francis Edwin Murray

Published At:

London, England

Pages:

32

Price:

State (a) priced at 10/6.

State (b) priced at 10/6.

State (c) priced at 3/6.

State (c) was sold privately at Cambridge University for a half-crown. Copies sold later for 42 shillings.

State (a):

2 copies printed on thick vellum.

State (b):

10 copies printed on thick Japanese vellum.

Bound in thin Japanese vellum turned-in wrapper repeating title-page.

State (c):

88 copies printed on hand-made paper produced by Abbey Mills, Greenfield.

Bound in a Japanese vellum turned-in wrapper repeating title-page.

 

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   - States (a) & (b)

   - State (c)

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   - States (a) & (b)

   - State (c)

 

Contents

States (a) & (b)

- Quotation from Songs of the Spirit, p. 13, Lines 1–4.

- Quotation: St. John xii, 24-25.

- Dedication

- à toi

- Preface

- Quotation: Acts I, 18-19

- Quotation from Swinburne’s ‘The Leper’

- Main Text

State (c)

- Quotation from Songs of the Spirit, p. 13, Lines 1–4.

- Quotation: St. John xii, 24-25.

- Preface

- Quotation: Acts I, 18-19

- Dedication

- à toi

- Quotation from Swinburne’s ‘The Leper’

- Main Text

 

 

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State (a) (Copy #2)

 

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State (b)

 

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State (c)