Shelfmark
Id1.5.31(01)-Id1.5.31(02) (Copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
Id1.5.32-Id1.5.33 (Copy 2)
Additional shelfmark
Id1.5.34-Id1.5.35 (Copy 3)
Additional shelfmark
Id1.4.28-Id1.4.29 (Copy 4)
Author
Collective uniform title
Poems. 1849
Title
Poems / by Robert Browning.
Edition
New edition.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Chapman and Hall, 1849.
Physical description
2 v. ([8], 386, [2] ; viii, 416 p.) ; 18 cm.
Note
Both vols with a half-title.
Note
Vol 1 with final advertisement leaf.
Provenance
Copies 1-4: From the Michael Meredith Browning Collection ; bookplate of the Michael Meredith Browning Collection.
Provenance
Copy 1: Both vols with ms. ownership signature of Mary Russell Mitford.
Provenance
Copy 2: Vol 1 with bookplate of Graham Pollard.
Provenance
Copy 2: Vol 1 with bookplate of Humphry and Mary Ward.
Provenance
Copy 3: Both vols with the bookplate of George Edward Craik.
Provenance
Copy 3: Both vols with the booklabel of J. O. Edwards.
Provenance
Copy 4: Both vols with ms. inscription to Pauline Trevelyan.
Binding
Copy 1: Publisher's black ribbed cloth with blind stamped floral border and central oval on boards, and lettering stamped in gold on spine: "Browning's poems, vol. I./II., London, Chapman & Hall." Both vols housed together in 20th century brown morocco and cloth box with gilt lettering and tooling.
Binding
Copy 2: Publisher's brown ribbed cloth with blind stamped floral border and central oval on boards, and lettering stamped in gold on spine: "Browning's poems, vol. I./II., London, Chapman & Hall."
Binding
Copies 3 and 4: Publisher's brown ribbed cloth with blind stamped line border and central oval on boards, and lettering stamped in gold on spine: "Browning's poems, vol. I./II., Chapman & Hall."
Copy-specific note
Copy 2: Ms. annotations in pencil throughout the text of "Paracelsus".
Copy-specific note
Copies 2 and 3: Ms. bookseller's notes in pencil.
Copy-specific note
Copy 4: Vol 1 ms. address pasted onto front endpaper from correspondence addressed to Thomas Woolner (c/o Wallinton Hall) in Robert Browing's hand.
Added entry--name
Mitford, Mary Russell, 1787 - 1855 former owner.
Added entry--name
Pollard, Graham. former owner.
Added entry--name
Ward, Humphry, 1851 - 1920 former owner.
Added entry--name
Ward, Thomas Humphry, 1845 - 1926 former owner.
Added entry--name
Meredith, Michael, 1936 - ? donor.
Added entry--name
Craik, George L. (George Lillie), 1798 - 1866 former owner.
Added entry--name
Edwards, J. O. former owner.
Added entry--name
Trevelyan, Pauline, 1816 - 1866 former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Chapman and Hall publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B29056