Lot 253
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Poems
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 07 February 2024 from 10:00 GMT
Description
Poems. New Edition. London: Chapman & Hall, 193, Piccadilly. (Late 186, Strand.), 1850. 2 volumes, 8vo (17 x 10.2cm), xii 362 [2], viii [2] 480 pp., original cloth, spines lettered in gilt between friezes in blind, decorative frames and centrepieces to covers in blind, yellow endpapers, half-title to each volume, printer's colophon leaf to rear of volume 1 (lacking in volume 2 if called for). Bindings rubbed overall, spines heavily sunned, fraying to spine-ends, covers faded, tips bumped and worn, bookplates removed from front pastedowns, contemporary ownership inscriptions ('Amy') to half-titles, a few light marks internally, volume 1 front pastedown retaining contemporary bookseller's ticket of W. F. Watson, Edinburgh (largely effaced in volume 2), small closed tear to half-title, quires L-M starting, volume 2 rear joint split, small section of paper disruption at foot of gutter from front free endpaper to pp. v/vi, finger-soiling to upper fore corner of title-page
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Footnote
Second edition, greatly expanded, and the first with 'Sonnets from the Portuguese'. All proceeds from the sale of this lot are to go to Oxfam UK.