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The Water of the Wondrous Isles

Edited by Florence S. Boos

INTRODUCTION

EDITIONS & PRINTED BOOKS

Text of The Water of the Wondrous Isles

Kelmscott Press edition, 1897 

First trade edition: Longmans, Green, & Co.:London, New York and Bombay, 1897

The Widow's House by the Great Water (early draft), edited by Helen A. Timo

MANUSCRIPTS

British Library Add. MS 45,322

British Library Add. MS 45,323, printer's copy

The Widow's House by the Great Water: British Library Add. MS 45,324, ff. 1-47

British Library Additional Manuscript 45,325, ff. 1-17

"List of Later Morris Poems After 1875," no. 27

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