Remember Me! (1824, 1825)
A Cumulative Table

Location Cover Color of edges Color of endpapers Inscription for gift or diary [a] Color of sleevecase
Boston Public Library (1824) rebound gilt no endpaper none no sleevecase
Cambridge 1 (1824) green straight-grain morocco [b] gilt marbled blue and brown none no sleevecase
Cambridge 2 (1824) pink gilt slate gray yes pink
Cambridge 3 (1825?) cream yellow pink none bright green
Cambridge 4 (1824) cream gilt brown 1 in diary no sleevecase
Cambridge 5 (1824) brown gilt slate gray   slate gray
Cambridge 6 (1824) [c] bright green gilt brown   red
Essick 1 (1824) [d] pale green gilt orange   red
Essick 2 (1825) <BBS p. 247> dark-red morocco [e] gilt marbled    
Harvard (1825) <BBS p. 247> rebound [f]   white S. P. Warren  
Huntington (1824) [g]          
James Madison University (1825)          
Morgan Library (1825?) [h] green straight-grain morocco gilt plain   no sleevecase
National Library of Wales 1 (1824) purple [i] sprinkled in red marbled gray with blue, pink, and orange Francis Fortuny no sleevecase
National Library of Wales 2 (1825?) [j] rebound gilt plain none no sleevecase
National Library of Wales 3 (1825?) [k]   yellow front green, back white none orange
New York Public Library (1825) <BB #490> cream   front yellow brown, back cream   bright green [l]
Princeton (1824) <BB #490> rebound   pink none  
Harriet Beecher Stowe Center (1824) rebound, leather spine gilt marbled gray and cream none no sleevecase
Victoria University in the University of Toronto 1 (1824) [m] green straight-grain morocco gilt marbled    
Victoria University in the University of Toronto 2 (1824) paper white gilt green   present
University of Virginia (1824) <BBS p. 247>          

a. What I have called “diary” is headed “KALENDAR and ALBUM 1825.” All after p. 336 (the diary) is missing from Cambridge copy 3, Morgan, National Library of Wales copies 2-3, and New York Public Library, as in the issue of 1825. In addition, the date has been erased from the title page in Cambridge copy 3 and National Library of Wales copies 2-3, and the engraved title page with the date is missing from the Morgan copy. All these were presumably issued in 1825.

b. Cambridge copy 1 is bound in light-green grained morocco with black tooling round the edges of the boards, gilt tooling on the spine, and a brown title label on the spine with gilt lettering. For the copies now in Cambridge, see BB #490 and BBS p. 247.

c. In Cambridge copy 6, the boards and spine are decorated in gilt with a red title label on the spine.

d. Essick copy 1, acquired from Douglas Cleverdon, is described in Geoffrey Keynes, Blake Studies, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971) 144.

e. The Essick copy is bound in dark-red morocco, with gilt and blind decorations and “REMEMBER | ME” on the spine; Essick is fairly certain that it is a publisher’s binding.

f. The Harvard (Houghton) copy, reproduced online <http://nrs.harvard.edu.libproxy.lib.unc.edu/urn-3:HUL.FIG:003640386>, shows the cover of dark-red pebble-grain cloth.

g. The Huntington copy lacks pp. 153-60.

h. The Morgan copy is inscribed “W. M. Rossetti from Swinburne 1878.”

i. With extraordinary generosity, Timothy Cutts of the National Library of Wales Rare Book Unit wrote me that

The copy is sewn on three recessed cords laced into boards with a tight back, covered in full embossed purple skiver [soft thin sheepskin]. The headbands are sewn in blue and white thread. The spine is lettered in gold with four gilded panels, and the borders of the boards are tooled with an ornamental gold fillet line.

j. National Library of Wales copy 2 has the date rubbed off the title page, and it has been rebound in a dark-green case binding with “1831” tooled in gold on the spine. There are no diary pages, and the copy ends at p. 336. The name W. H. Davey has been scratched on the upper cover.

k. National Library of Wales copy 3 comes from the library of Francis William Bourdillon (1852-1921), poet, literary scholar, and bibliographer, of Midhurst, Sussex.

l. In the copy in the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library, beneath the green cover of the sleevecase is red paper.

m. Victoria University copy 1 (formerly Essick’s) lacks pp. 73-74 (f. E1).