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BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861). Poems... New Edition. London: Bradbury and Evans for Chapman & Hall, 1850.
2 volumes, 12o (170 x 107 mm). Original publisher's slate-blue cloth, covers decorated in blind, gilt-lettered on spine (spines lightly sunned); cloth folding case. Provenance: ?L. Anstable (signature on front free endpaper in volume one) -- H.M. Gilbert, Ye Olde Boke Shoppe, Southampton (labels on front pastedowns) -- purchased from Seven Gables Bookshop, New York, 13 November 1968.
Second edition, the first to include the celebrated "Sonnets from the Portuguese." Also present is a second translation of "Prometheus Bound." Barnes/Texas EB6; Tinker 399; Wise Browning, p.80. FINE COPY. (2)
2 volumes, 12o (170 x 107 mm). Original publisher's slate-blue cloth, covers decorated in blind, gilt-lettered on spine (spines lightly sunned); cloth folding case. Provenance: ?L. Anstable (signature on front free endpaper in volume one) -- H.M. Gilbert, Ye Olde Boke Shoppe, Southampton (labels on front pastedowns) -- purchased from Seven Gables Bookshop, New York, 13 November 1968.
Second edition, the first to include the celebrated "Sonnets from the Portuguese." Also present is a second translation of "Prometheus Bound." Barnes/Texas EB6; Tinker 399; Wise Browning, p.80. FINE COPY. (2)