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18 stanzas, quoted in the Catalogue in extenso, not appearing in any of the published editions, but which it is quite possible were also printed in the early proofs, or in some small private issue of the first edition of 1842, and afterwards struck out. There is indeed no evidence, as in the former case, that these two stanzas were actually printed by the author, and not scored through before sending the "copy" to the printer; but there is some considerable prima facie presumption that they were set up in type, like the rest, in the first instance. Early proof-sheets of "In Memoriam" and "Maud" exist, which show that numerous alterations, omissions and additions were made in these poems after they were in type.

A second, third and fourth edition of the Poems in two volumes, with some alterations and additions, and with the omission of a note to the second volume and of the date (1833) originally appended to the poem of "The Two Voices," appeared in 1843, 1845 and 1846 respectively. These are of considerably less rarity than the first issue: the edition of 1843, like the first edition, was issued in boards; that of 1845 in cloth boards; and that