B30992
Shelfmark
Id3.2.02(01)-Id3.2.02(02)
Additional copy shelfmark
[Another copy:] Id3.2.05-Id3.2.06
Additional copy shelfmark
[Another copy:] Id3.2.07-Id3.2.08
Author
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Collective uniform title
Poems., Selections
Title
A selection from the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Edition
New edition.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London :, Smith, Elder, & Co.,, 1884.
Physical description
2 v. ;, 17 cm.
Note
With a half-title.
Note
Publisher's brown cloth, with black and blind stamped frames on boards, and gold lettering and decoration stamped on spine.
Provenance
[Id3.2.02(01)-(02)] Ms. inscription: "Miss Palgrave - with all regards and best wishes from Robert Browning. Feb. 8. '87."
Provenance
[Id3.2.05-06] From the Michael Meredith Browning Collection, with bookplate.
Provenance
[Id3.2.05-06] Ms. inscription: "Dear Mrs [Katherine] Bronson from her very affectionate Gery Milner Gibson Cullum. A memorial of Cambridge Sept 1st. but this written at Venice Nov 11. 1886."
Provenance
[Id3.2.05-06] Bookseller's stamp (Macmillan and Bowes, Cambridge).
Provenance
[Id3.2.07-08] Ms. inscription in both vols: "F. Blewitt, Nov. 28th 84, F. N. & Co."
Binding
[Id3.2.02(01)-(02)] 19th century blue morocco, with gilt lettering on spine, gilt tooling on turn-ins, gilt edges, and decorated endpapers ; bound by Buttaby, London (binder's stamp) ; housed in late 20th century blue morocco and cloth box, with gilt lettering and tooling ; made by R. L. Day.
Binding
[Id3.2.05-06] Both vols with 19th century tan speckled calf, gilt fillet frames on boards, gilt stamps and lettering on spines, gilt tooling on turn-ins, marbled edges and endpapers ; bound by J. B. Hawes, Cambridge (binder's stamp).
Copy-specific note
[Id3.2.02(01)-(02)] Loose copy of a photographic portrait of Robert Browning, with ms. inscription: "R. Browning : 1889, the last English photograph. (from R[obert]. B[arrett]. B[rowning]. Feb 1890)".
Copy-specific note
[Id3.2.02(01)-(02)] Two vols bound together.
Copy-specific note
[Id3.2.05-06, Id3.2.07-08] Ms. booksellers' notes in pencil.
Added entry--name
Browning, inscriber.
Added entry--name
Browning, inscriber.
Added entry--name
Day, R. L, binder.
Added entry--name
Meredith, Michael, former owner.
Added entry--name
Bronson, Katharine de Kay, former owner.
Added entry--name
Milner-Gibson-Cullum, George Gery, inscriber.
Added entry--name
Hawes, J. B, binder.
Added entry--name
Blewitt, F, former owner.
Added entry--name
Plowden & Smith, publisher.
Added entry--name
Buttaby, binder.
Added entry--name
Macmillan and Bowes, bookseller.
Added entry--place
England, London.
Additional copy
[Another copy:] Id3.2.05-Id3.2.06
Additional copy
[Another copy:] Id3.2.07-Id3.2.08
B30992
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