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Lot 127

Sale 741 - Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Jun 23, 2020 10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861). Poems. London: Chapman & Hall, 1850.


2 volumes, 8vo (168 x 105 mm). Half-title (Slight spotting to a few leaves.) Contemporary half red morocco gilt, top edges gilt, STAMP-SIGNED BY BIRDSALL for Charles Scribner’s Sons (slight rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Louisa Lane Clarke (1812-1883), British travel writer and botanist (signature).
 
Second edition, the first to include “Sonnets from the Portuguese,” including the half-titles, and with the publisher’s imprint in the second state as usual. Barnes A6; Tinker 399; Wise 7.

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