Shelfmark
Id1.5.12 (Copy 1)
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Id1.5.13 (Copy 2)
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Id1.5.14 (Copy 3)
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Id1.5.15(01) (Copy 4)
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Id1.5.15(02) (Copy 5)
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Id1.5.15(03) (Copy 6)
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Id1.5.16(01) (Copy 7)
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Id1.5.16(02) (Copy 8)
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Id1.5.17 (Copy 9)
Author
Title
Sordello / by Robert Browning.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Edward Moxon, Dover Street, MDCCCXL [1840]
Physical description
[4], 254, [2], 16 p. ; 18 cm.
Note
With a half-title.
Note
Copies 2 and 3: Nine final advertisement leaves.
Note
Copies 4-8: Final advertisement leaf.
Note
Copies 2 and 3: Publisher's dark grey paper boards with printed title label on spine ; as referenced by Carter, 1932 and 1938 - binding variant 'A'.
Note
Copies 4 and 7: Publisher's purple diaper cloth with printed title label on spine ; as referenced by Carter, 1932 and 1938 - binding variant 'C'.
Note
Copies 5 and 8: Publisher's green ribbed cloth with blind stamped borders on boards and lettering stamped in gold on spine ; as referenced in Carter, 1932 - binding variant 'D'.
Note
Copy 6: Publisher's green sand-grain cloth with printed title label on spine ; referenced in Carter, 1938.
Provenance
Copies 1-9: Book label of the Michael Meredith Browning Collection.
Provenance
Copy 1: Ms. inscription: "W. A. Dow Esq., from his friend, R[obert]. B[rowning]."
Provenance
Copy 2: Ms. inscription: "Eliot Warburton Esq., from R[obert]. B[rowning].", with ms. ownership signature on front board.
Provenance
Copy 5: Bookplate of Arthur B. Spingarn.
Provenance
Copy 7: From the library of Windle Hall, Lancashire, with armorial bookplate.
Provenance
Copy 8: Ms. inscription: "Walter Alfred Hills, June 1865."
Provenance
Copy 9: Ms. inscription: "From [Cormell] Price to Sydney C. Cockerell, Nov. 1907."
Provenance
Copy 9: Given by Edward Burne-Jones to Cormell Price (information from ms. note on front endpaper).
Provenance
Copy 9: Ms. inscription: " Nov. 1858, Edward [Burne-]Jones, from Frederic G. Stephens [?]hoping to."
Binding
Copy 1: 19th century brown morocco with gilt and blind tooled decoration on boards and spine, gilt lettering on spine, tooling on tur-ins, gilt edges, and marbled endpapers ; housed in 20th century red morocco and cloth box with gilt lettering and tooling, made by R. L. Day.
Binding
Copy 2: Housed in 20th century black morocco and cloth box with gilt lettering and tooling.
Binding
Copy 3: Housed in 20th century yellow cloth box with gilt on brown leather lettering piece.
Binding
Copies 4-6: Housed together in 20th century black morocco and cloth box with gilt lettering and tooling.
Binding
Copies 7 and 8: Housed together in 20th century black morocco and cloth box with gilt lettering and tooling.
Binding
Copy 9: Early 20th century brown morocco with gilt lettering on spine and gilt tooling on turn-ins ; bound by Katharine Adams (information from ms. notes).
Copy-specific note
Copies 1 and 9: Lacking advertisement leaves.
Copy-specific note
Copies 3, 5, 6 and 7: Ms. bookseller's notes in pencil.
Copy-specific note
Copy 5: Blind stamp: "R."
Copy-specific note
Copies 5 and 8: ?Both in Carter's variant binding 'D' but border pattern different from each other.
Copy-specific note
Copy 8: Ms. passages from the "Biographie universelle" copied onto front endpapers and preliminaries, with ms. annotations on pp. 1-2, [?]in Walter Alfred Hills hand.
Copy-specific note
Copy 9: Ms. note on front endpaper about the provenance of this book, and on back pastedown about the binding of this book, in Sydney Cockerell's hand.
Added entry--name
Meredith, Michael, 1936 - ? donor.
Added entry--name
Moxon, Edward, 1801 - 1858 publisher.
Added entry--name
Dow, William A. former owner.
Added entry--name
Browning, Robert, 1812 - 1889 inscriber.
Added entry--name
Warburton, Eliot, 1810 - 1852 former owner.
Added entry--name
Spingarn, Arthur B. (Arthur Barnett), 1878 - 1971 former owner.
Added entry--name
Hills, Walter Alfred former owner.
Added entry--name
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, 1867 - 1962 former owner.
Added entry--name
Price, Cormell, ca. 1836 - 1910 former owner.
Added entry--name
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833 - 1898 former owner.
Added entry--name
Stephens, Frederic George, 1828 - 1907 inscriber.
Added entry--name
Adams, Katharine, 1862 - 1952 binder.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B29014