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IV.
At this point one may turn to consider Shepherd's little monograph: The Lover's Tale / A Supplementary Chapter to Tennysoniana. / (Only Fifty Copies Printed.) On the verso of the titlepage appears the legend, "Price Two Shillings"; the text fills pages [3]-8. Though the pamphlet bears no date, Shepherd's actions in advertising the edition in the Athenaeum of 8 May, and in presenting an example to the British Museum on 19 May 1875, prove conclusively that he produced it in that year. In his Bibliography of Tennyson (II, 9-10) Wise implied that the monograph was printed in 1870, but later in a rare absentminded moment, he gave the pamphlet its true date of "[1875]", in his Ashley Library (VII, 1925, p. 161).
Copies are held by the Clark Memorial Library in Los Angeles (bound with a copy of Tennysoniana, 1866), Princeton, and Texas.
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