The poet's pilgrimage
Subtitle: an allegorical poem, in four cantos. [By J. Payne Collier]
Publisher: Printed for Septimus Prowett Printed by L. Harrison
Published: 1822-1825
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Description: 4to. pp. viii, 120.  Collier's own copy, part of an assembly consisting of (1) marked proofs of the 1822 issue; (2) marked proofs of the prefatory matter (pp. i-viii) of the 1825 issue; (3) all sheets as issued in 1822, with the prefatory matter marked for the changes made in 1825; and (4) the sheet of prefatory matter as issued in 1825 (see Bib# 10094660/Fr# 905 in this collection). The heavily corrected proofs of the 1822 prefatory matter show that Collier originally intended that his name appear on the title page. Of this suppressed first edition only three other copies are known: Folger (lacking title), Harvard, and Lilly (Henry Crabb Robinson's copy). See A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, II, A4. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.