The Battle of Marathon. A Poem Written in Early Youth... Printed for her Father in 1820 and Now Reprinted in Type-facsimile. With an Introduction by H. Buxton Forman, LIMITED TO 50 COPIES ON PAPER, some foxing, crushed half morocco gilt by Myers & Co., gilt lettered spine with floral tool at each end, large 8vo, For Private Distribution Only, 1891; The Seraphim, and Other Poems, FIRST EDITION, inscribed "E.J. Smith from H. S Boyd Esqre" on front free endpaper, a little staining in some corners, contemporary green morocco, elaborately gilt with large urn device at centre of covers, spine chipped, upper cover detached, Saunders & Otley, 1838; Poems, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, light soiling throughout, without advertisements, green half morocco gilt by Tout, gilt panelled spines with raised bands, Edward Moxon, 1844; Casa Guidi Windows. A Poem, FIRST EDITION, half-title, 36pp. publisher's catalogue at end, occasional spotting, lacking front free endpaper, publisher's cloth, spine ends frayed, Chapman & Hall, 1851; Poems, 2 vol., third edition, contemporary half calf gilt, spines rubbed, Chapman & Hall, 1853; [AND ROBERT BROWNING] Two Poems [title on wrappers], FIRST EDITION, later brown half morocco gilt, preserving publisher's wrappers, spine faded, Chapman & Hall, 1854; Poems, 3 vol., fourth edition, half-titles, publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, spines gilt, Chapman & Hall, 1856; Aurora Leigh, FIRST EDITION, , half-titles, publisher's green cloth, soiled, spine ends frayed, front hinge split, Chapman & Hall, 1857; Poems Before Congress, FIRST EDITION, slight browning at edges, publisher's blind-stamped red cloth, lettered in gilt, spine darkened and slightly frayed, Chapman & Hall, 1860; Last Poems, FIRST EDITION, lightly browned, first 3 leaves detached, publisher's blind-stamped light blue cloth, spine gilt, slightly soiled, new endpapers, Chapman & Hall, 1862 8vo (14)

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Provenance: The Seraphim, Hugh Stuart Boyd, mentor to the young Elizabeth Barrett Browning, presentation inscription to Ellen Jane Smith on his behalf. Two Poems, Maurice Buxton Foreman, bookplate. Maurice has been posthumously implicated as a party to his father and T.J. Wise's literary counterfeit schemes, which included the use of the format of (presumably) the present copy of Two Poems for their forgeries.

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BROWNING (ELIZABETH BARRETT) The Battle of Marathon, ONE OF 50 COPIES, 1891; and 13 others

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