Lot 140
Browning, Robert
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 15 January 2014 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Christmas-Eve and Easter Day. Chapman and Hall, 1850. First edition, 8vo, original dark green cloth, with a double blind ruled border, upper board with author and title in gilt within a gilt frame, spine with a handwritten paper label, label chipped, yellow endpapers, (Carter C binding); [Idem] Men and women. Chapman and Hall, 1855. First edition, 2 volumes, 12mo, contemporary dark green polished morocco, spine decorated gilt in compartments, a little rubbed; [Idem] The Ring and the book. Smith, Elder, 1868-69. First edition, 4 volumes, 8vo, original dark green cloth over bevelled boards, spines lettered in gilt, boards with black double line and tooth roll border, volumes all numbered in Roman, a little rubbing to heads and tails; [Idem] Autograph signature, dated "London, May 18, '64", on slip of paper 5x10cm, framed with engraved portrait by A. Wagner, overall frame size 37x28cm (7)