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Lot 159•
BROWNING (ELIZABETH BARRETT) Poems... New Edition, 2 vol., Chapman & Hall, 1850
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BROWNING (ELIZABETH BARRETT)
Poems... New Edition, 2 vol., second edition enlarged, half-titles, imprint in second state as usual (193 Piccadilly, as opposed to 186 Strand), full crushed red morocco gilt by Tout, spines with raised bands, gilt lettering and repeated floral tool, inner gilt dentelles, t.e.g., upper cover of volume 1 detached, lower joint of volume 2 cracked [Barnes A6], 8vo, Chapman & Hall, 1850
Footnotes
'HOW DO I LOVE THEE?' The much enlarged second edition of the poet's Poems, including the first appearance in print of the forty-four famous Sonnets from the Portuguese, written four or five years earlier at the time of her courtship with Robert Browning.
Provenance: Ormond G. Smith, bookplate.