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Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1826
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An Essay on Mind
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1826
[BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861).] An Essay on Mind, with other Poems. London: James Duncan, 1826.
First edition of the poet's first published book. The Martin-Currie copy. The Essay on Mind, a blank verse composition on the qualities, elements and abilities of the mind, is a work of remarkable self-confidence, displaying Elizabeth Barrett's precocious reading of philosophers and historians including, among others, Gibbon, Berkeley, Plato, Bolingbroke and Bacon. The publication was paid for by Elizabeth's grandmother's companion, Mary Trepsack, and although the immediate public response to the work was muted, it had the significant effect of persuading the Barrett family to regard her literary ambitions seriously. Ashley 1:92; Barnes A2; Hayward 238; Wise A Browning Library 75.
Octavo. (A little foxing, offsetting from bookplate.) Original boards (spine a little toned with short crack along top of upper joint, a little rubbing at extremities). Provenance: Barton Currie (bookplate) — H. Bradley Martin (his sale, Sotheby's New York, 30 April 30 1990, lot 2670).
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1826
[BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861).] An Essay on Mind, with other Poems. London: James Duncan, 1826.
First edition of the poet's first published book. The Martin-Currie copy. The Essay on Mind, a blank verse composition on the qualities, elements and abilities of the mind, is a work of remarkable self-confidence, displaying Elizabeth Barrett's precocious reading of philosophers and historians including, among others, Gibbon, Berkeley, Plato, Bolingbroke and Bacon. The publication was paid for by Elizabeth's grandmother's companion, Mary Trepsack, and although the immediate public response to the work was muted, it had the significant effect of persuading the Barrett family to regard her literary ambitions seriously. Ashley 1:92; Barnes A2; Hayward 238; Wise A Browning Library 75.
Octavo. (A little foxing, offsetting from bookplate.) Original boards (spine a little toned with short crack along top of upper joint, a little rubbing at extremities). Provenance: Barton Currie (bookplate) — H. Bradley Martin (his sale, Sotheby's New York, 30 April 30 1990, lot 2670).
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