£250
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 644
Auction: 23 June 2021 at 11:00 BST
i) Strafford: An Historical Tragedy. Longman, Rees, Orme [&c.], 1837, FIRST EDITION, 2pp. publisher's adverts at end, original wrappers, collector's chemise and slipcase, lower corner of upper wrapper rubbed; ii) The Statue and the Bust. Edward Moxon, 1855 [but Richard Clay and Sons, c.1890], WISE FORGERY, full olive morocco by Tout; iii) Cleon. Edward Moxon, 1855 [but Richard Clay and Sons, c.1890], WISE FORGERY, full brown morocco by Riviere & Son; iv) The Poetical Works of Robert Browning. Smith, Elder and Co., 1887-1889, 9 (of 10) volumes, half calf, bindings worn and fragile with some loss to spines; v) Principal Shorter Poems. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1890, half stained calf, upper joint tender; vi) New Poems. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1915, two portraits, 4pp. publisher's adverts at end, original cloth, spine browned; vii) The Poems of Robert Browning. Oxford University Press, 1936, reprint, original cloth, boards soiled; all 8vo (15)
Provenance: i) and ii) Harry Buxton Forman (1842-1917); his sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, 15 March 1920, lots 116 and 121; iii) Edwin N. Lapham; his sale, Anderson Auction Company, New York, 1st December 1908, lot 143; Walter Thomas Wallace, bookplate; his sale, American Art Association, New York, 22nd March 1920, lot 118
Many with bookplate of John Whipple Frothingham