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CHURCH AND SCHOOL PRIZES -- BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861). The Poetical Works. London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1920. 8°. Half tone plate with portrait of the author. Contemporary green limp morocco, lettered in gilt (spine and edges of covers worn). Provenance: prize bookplate inscribed: "Finkin Street Methodist Church, Grantham. [Awarded to] Margaret Roberts , March 1939"; ownership signature "Margaret H. Roberts" on front free endpaper.
BROWNING, Robert (1812-1889). The Poetical Works. London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, [1940]. 8°. Half tone plate with portrait, original blue cloth gilt (extremities lightly rubbed, corners bumped). Provenance: Margaret Roberts (Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School inscribed prize label, "[Form] VI [Prize for] Oxford Higher School Certificate Examination, [given by] the Governors, [presented by] the Headmistress"; ownership signature "Margaret H. Roberts" on front free endpaper; gilt school arms on upper cover.
[With:] A late 19th-century edition of Milton's Poetical Works, inscribed "Margret H. Roberts," the sonnet "On His Blindness" p. 413 marked by a turned over leaf; and the first edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Poems (London: Edward Moxon,1844) in original green cloth (spines repaired). First edition (not inscribed, presumably a later purchase).
![CHURCH AND SCHOOL PRIZES -- BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861). The Poetical Works. London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1920. 8°. Half tone plate with portrait of the author. Contemporary green limp morocco, lettered in gilt (spine and edges of covers worn). Provenance: prize bookplate inscribed: "Finkin Street Methodist Church, Grantham. [Awarded to] Margaret Roberts , March 1939"; ownership signature "Margaret H. Roberts" on front free endpaper.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2015/CKS/2015_CKS_10672_0002_000(church_and_school_prizes_--_browning_elizabeth_barrett_the_poetical_wo092625).jpg?w=1)
