Shelfmark
Id1.5.22(01) (Copy 1)
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Id1.5.22(02) (Copy 2)
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Id1.5.27 (Copy 3)
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Id1.5.29(03) (Copy 4)
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Id1.5.30(03) (Copy 5)
Author
Title
Bells and pomegranates : no. III - Dramatic Lyrics / by Robert Browning ...
Varying form of title
Dramatic lyrics
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Edward Moxon, MDCCCXLII [1842]
Physical description
16 p. ; 24 cm.
Note
Printed in two columns.
Note
Copies 1-3: Original printed light green paper wrappers.
Note
Copy 4: Publisher's black ribbed cloth with blind stamped decoration on boards and lettering stamped in gold on spine, bound as a set with the other eight "Bells and pomegranates" pamphlets and with two front advertisement leaves.
Provenance
Copies 1-4: From the Michael Meredith Browning Collection ; Copies 3-4: with book label of the Michael Meredith Browning Collection.
Provenance
Copy 1: From the library of Marie Belloc Lowndes (information from ms. note inside box).
Provenance
Copy 1: Ms. inscription: "Mrs. [Anna Dorothea] Montagu, with R[obert]. B[rowning].'s best respects and regards.
Provenance
Copy 3: Bookplates of Simon and Judith Adams Nowell-Smith.
Provenance
Copy 3: Armorial bookplate of Viscount Esher.
Provenance
Copy 3: Ms. inscription: "W[illiam]. Etty Esq. R.A., with R[obert]. B[rowning].'s compliments."
Provenance
Copy 4: Purchased by Michael Meredith from the Sotheby's A. N. L. Munby sale in 1976.
Provenance
Copy 4: ?Armorial stamp and ownership signature of A. N. L. Munby.
Provenance
Copy 5: From the collection of Edward Moulton-Barrett.
Provenance
Copy 5: Ms. inscription in pencil in unknown hand: "From J. Kenyon to Elizabeth Barrett."
Binding
Copies 1-2: Housed in 20th century teal morocco and cloth box with gilt lettering and tooling.
Binding
Copy 3: Housed in ?late 19th century brown cloth folder with gilt lettering.
Binding
Copy 4: Housed in 20th century black morocco and cloth box with gilt tooling and lettering.
Binding
Copy 5: 19th century brown calf with gilt tooled borderd on boards, gilt decoration on spine and turn-ins, gilt on black leather lettering piece on spine, and marbled endpapers and edges ; bound by Hayday (binder's stamp).
Copy-specific note
Copy 1: Ms. corrections in Robert Browning's hand - pp. 5, 6, and 14.
Copy-specific note
Copy 4: Loose ms. letter (dated 1882/12/04) between pp. 10 and 11 pamphlet no. 3 "Dramatic lyrics" signed from Alfred Domett.
Copy-specific note
Copy 4: Ms. note in pencil on front pastedown in Michael Meredith's hand.
Copy-specific note
Copy 5: Bound with "Bells and pomegrantes" pamphlets nos. 1-6.
Copy-specific note
Copy 5: Ms. annotation in pencil p. 3 and ms. note about Alfred Domett in pencil on p. 10.
Added entry--name
Meredith, Michael, 1936 - ? donor.
Added entry--name
Moxon, Edward, 1801 - 1858 publisher.
Added entry--name
Montagu, Anna Dorothea former owner.
Added entry--name
Lowndes, Marie Belloc, 1868 - 1947 former owner.
Added entry--name
Nowell-Smith, Simon, 1909 - ? former owner.
Added entry--name
Nowell-Smith, Judith Adams former owner.
Added entry--name
Esher, Oliver Sylvain Baliol Brett, 1881 - 1963 former owner.
Added entry--name
Etty, William, 1787 - 1849 former owner.
Added entry--name
Munby, A. N. L., 1913 - 1974 former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Moulton-Barrett, Edward R. (Edward Richard), 1916 - ? former owner.
Added entry--name
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806 - 1861 ?former owner.
Added entry--name
Kenyon, John, 1784 - 1856 ?inscriber.
Added entry--name
Hayday & Co. binder.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B29044