Victorian Poetry - Browning, R.
Auction: 4 February 2009 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Men and women. London, 1855. First edition, 8vo, 2 volumes, two pages of advertisements at end of volume 2, original olive-green cloth (Carter's variant A), covers stamped in blind, spines lettered in gilt, collector's morocco-backed slipcase, [Wise 9; Wise A Browning Library pp.21-22; Carter Binding Variants p.98], very occasional minor marginal staining or spotting, small tears and nicks to edges of four leaves in volume 1, corners and head and foot of spines rubbed, spines faded, hinges of volume 2 weak; Coleridge, S.T. Sibylline leaves: a collection of poems. London, 1817. First edition, 8vo, with leaf of errata, original paper-backed blue boards, a few pencil annotations to the text, manuscript poem in ink on front endpaper with signature at head "Robert Martin", [Wise 45], rebacked preserving most of the original spine, wear to edges, some staining and discolouration of the boards; Tennyson, A. The princess; A medley. London, 1847. First edition, 12mo, nineteenth-century crushed morocco gilt, original cloth bound in; [Ibid.] Maud, and other poems. London, 1855. First edition, 12mo, original cloth; another copy, first edition, nineteenth-century morocco gilt; [Ibid.] Demeter and other poems. London, 1889. First edition, 12mo, nineteenth-century crushed morocco gilt, bookplate of Joan Whitney, upper joint rubbed (7)