Helen's tower, Clandeboye
Publisher: Privately printed
Published: 1870
Place of publication: Clandeboye, Ire.
Language: eng
Subjects: English poetry; Gift books; Poetry
Notes: Engraved t.-p. with vignette of the tower.

First edition, 3d issue: sheets of the 1st issue (1861) with the blank leaf watermarked "T & PH 1862" at front (as in the 2d issue, 1862), and an additional leaf at end, containing Browning's sonnet "Helen's tower", dated April 16, 1870.

Probably compiled by the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava who had erected the tower in honor of his mother. Includes the Baroness of Dufferin and Clandeboye's poem "To my dear son on his 21st birthday" and Tennyson's ten-line poem beginning "Helen's tower, here I stand ..." Tennyson's poem was later published, with 2 added lines, in his Tiresias and other poems (1885).

For a full description of this work, see T.J. Wise: The Ashley library, v. 7 (1925) p. 122-123.
Table of contents: title: [Notice dated 1850, of the christening of the tower as Helens Tower]; title: To my dear son on his 21st birthday / [Helen, Baroness of Dufferin and Clandeboye] June 21st, 1847; title: Helen's Tower, here I stand / [Alfred Tennyson]; title: [Note]: On Wednesday, October 23, 1861, Helen's Tower was finished; title: Helen's Tower / Robert Browning, April 26, 1870.