Sonnets from the Portuguese (in Poems, New Edition)

The sonnets did not appear as a stand-alone publication; they first reached print buried within this two-volume "New Edition" of Poems. A supposed "Reading, 1847: Not for Publication" pamphlet edition of Sonnets from the Portuguese, once treated by some collectors as an ultra-rare true first, was exposed in 1934 by John Carter and Graham Pollard as a forgery manufactured by Thomas J. Wise no earlier than the 1880s; it has no bibliographic standing and must not be treated as preceding the 1850 Chapman and Hall Poems.