Shelfmark
Id1.5.04 (Copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
Id1.5.05 (Copy 2)
Additional shelfmark
Id1.5.06 (Copy 3)
Additional shelfmark
Id1.5.07 (Copy 4)
Author
Title
Paracelsus / by Robert Browning.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Published by Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, MDCCCXXXV [1835]
Physical description
x, [2], 216 p. ; 18 cm.
Note
With a half-title.
Note
Includes note on the text.
Note
Publisher's dark grey paper boards with printed title label on spine.
Provenance
Copies 1-4: Book label of the Michael Meredith Browning Collection.
Provenance
Copy 1: Bookplate of George Lillie Craik.
Provenance
Copy 1: Ms. inscription: "W. B. Glasse, from W. A. D[ow]., April 3, 1841."
Provenance
Copy 3: Ms. inscription: "John Purchas - June 1845 -" (listed in Robert Browning's address book held at Yale University).
Provenance
Copy 4: Ms. inscription: "The Author to his dear friend, W. A. Dow."
Binding
Copy 1: Housed in 20th century green morocco and cloth box with gilt lettering and tooling.
Binding
Copy 2: Housed in ?20th century brown sand-grain cloth with gilt lettering.
Binding
Copy 3: 19th century burgundy leather quarter-binding with brown paper boards and ?ms. title label on spine ; housed in 20th century tan morocco and cloth box with gilt lettering and tooling, made by R. L. Day.
Binding
Copy 4: 19th century burgundy calf with gilt and blind tooled borders on boards, blind stamped decoration on spine, ?gilt on lettering piece on spine, gilt decoration on turn-ins, and gilt edges ; housed in 20th century burgundy morocco and cloth box with gilt lettering and tooling.
Copy-specific note
Copies 1, 2 and 4: Ms. bookseller's notes in pencil.
Copy-specific note
Copy 2: Ms. annotation in pencil on p. 28, and ms. annotations in ink throughout text.
Added entry--name
Meredith, Michael, 1936 - ? donor.
Added entry--name
Wilson, Effingham, 1783 - 1868 publisher.
Added entry--name
Craik, George L. (George Lillie), 1798 - 1866 former owner.
Added entry--name
Glasse, W. B. former owner.
Added entry--name
Dow, William A. inscriber.
Added entry--name
Purchas, John, 1823 - 1872 former owner.
Added entry--name
Dow, William A. former owner.
Added entry--name
Browning, Robert, 1812 - 1889 inscriber.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B29008