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London: Humphrey Milford, 1930. Second edition, no. 47 of 250 copies printed on hand-made paper. 8vo. Two photogravure portraits, two facsimiles of Hopkins’s manuscripts, and a drawing by Hopkins used as a headpiece. [20], 159, [1] pp. Publisher's half parchment and patterned boards; small nick and some soiling to spine, small dealer description affixed to colophon page Hopkins’ poems were not published until 1918, nearly thirty years after his death, gathered and edited by his friend Robert Bridges. This second edition, limited to 250 copies (there was also a trade edition), contains sixteen additional poems not included in the first edition.“Hopkins’ poetry with its religious faith, his experiments in versification, his ‘dark night of the soul’ would have reduced all his Victorian contemporaries to immediate insignificance—like Rimbaud’s in France—had they but known of him” (Connolly)REFERENCE: Connolly 100, no. 33 (first ed.); Dunne A73