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BROWNING, Robert (1812-1889). Dramatis Personae. London: Chapman and Hall, 1864.
8° (191 x 121mm). Original mulberry cloth, yellow endpapers (spine slightly faded and discoloured), morocco-backed cloth slipcase, spine with Vander Poel's arms and inscription 'Graduation Present R.C.B. June 1935.' Provenance: 15 lines of verse in an unidentified hand pencilled on pp.34-35. With a loosely inserted 4-line letter, 8°, signed Robert Browning, dated 19 Warwick Cresecent. W[estminster] 5 Feb[ruary] [18]86, to [Arthur Symons], confirming that 'What you have sent and I return herewith are genuine autographs ... probably given to some friend, as such, by Mr. Kenyon, the writer's cousin,' mentioned on slipcase.
FIRST EDITION, published on May 28, 1864. Although ready in the spring of 1863, publication of Dramatis Personae had been delayed so as not to interfere with the sale of the Works, advertised on the recto of R6. Sales of the edition, probably 2000 copies, were excellent, and a second edition was printed within the year. A typed note by Halsted Vander Poel records: 'Given me on the date of my receiving the degree of B.S. from Yale university, June 18, 1935, by R.C.B.' Broughton A69; Hayward 254; Wise Browning 11. Not in Kelley & Hudson.
8° (191 x 121mm). Original mulberry cloth, yellow endpapers (spine slightly faded and discoloured), morocco-backed cloth slipcase, spine with Vander Poel's arms and inscription 'Graduation Present R.C.B. June 1935.' Provenance: 15 lines of verse in an unidentified hand pencilled on pp.34-35. With a loosely inserted 4-line letter, 8°, signed Robert Browning, dated 19 Warwick Cresecent. W[estminster] 5 Feb[ruary] [18]86, to [Arthur Symons], confirming that 'What you have sent and I return herewith are genuine autographs ... probably given to some friend, as such, by Mr. Kenyon, the writer's cousin,' mentioned on slipcase.
FIRST EDITION, published on May 28, 1864. Although ready in the spring of 1863, publication of Dramatis Personae had been delayed so as not to interfere with the sale of the Works, advertised on the recto of R6. Sales of the edition, probably 2000 copies, were excellent, and a second edition was printed within the year. A typed note by Halsted Vander Poel records: 'Given me on the date of my receiving the degree of B.S. from Yale university, June 18, 1935, by R.C.B.' Broughton A69; Hayward 254; Wise Browning 11. Not in Kelley & Hudson.
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