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Id1.4.01 (Copy 1)
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Id1.4.02(01) (Copy 2)
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Id1.4.02(02) (Copy 3)
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Id1.4.02(03) (Copy 4)
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Id1.4.03(01) (Copy 5)
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Id1.4.03(02) (Copy 6)
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Id1.4.03(03) (Copy 7)
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Id1.4.04 (Copy 8)
Author
Title
Christmas-eve and Easter-day : a poem / by Robert Browning.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Chapman & Hall, 1850.
Physical description
[4], 142, 32 p. ; 18 cm
Note
With a half-title ; advertisements on verso.
Note
Copies 1, 2 and 5: 16 final advertisement leaves ; Copies 1 and 2 advertisements dated: "April 1850", Copy 3 advertisements dated: "August 1849".
Provenance
Copies 1-7: From the Michael Meredith Browning Collection ; Copies 1 and 3-7: with bookplate.
Provenance
Copy 1: Bookplate of the Blair Collection at Blairhame.
Provenance
Copy 1: Ms. inscription: "W. Wissenden."
Provenance
Copy 2: Bookplate of Edmund Gosse.
Provenance
Copy 2: Ms. inscription: "To wish you a Happy Christmas, dear Molly [Countess of Berkeley], with love from Leslie [P. Hartley]."
Provenance
Copy 3: Ms. inscription: "C. E. Mudie Esq, with Robert Browning's com-pliments."
Provenance
Copy 4: Bookplate of Mr. and Mrs. Humphry Ward.
Provenance
Copy 6: Ms. inscription: "Henry Millard."
Provenance
Copy 8: From the collection of Edward Moulton-Barrett.
Provenance
Copy 8: Ms. inscription: "Arabel Barrett, April [?]67."
Binding
Copies 1, 2 and 5: Publisher's brown ribbed cloth with blind stamped floral border and lozenge on boards and lettering stamped in gold on spine ; binding variant 'A' as found in "Binding variants", Carter, 1932.
Binding
Copy 1: Housed in ?early 20th century green cloth slipcases, with gilt on red leather lettering piece.
Binding
Copies 2-4: Housed in late 20th century green morocco and cloth box with gilt lettering and tooling, with two other copies.
Binding
Copy 3: Publisher's dull green diaper cloth with blind stamped line border and lozenge on boards, and lettering stamped in gold on spine ; binding variant not recorded in Carter, 1932.
Binding
Copy 4: Publisher's dull green diaper cloth with blind stamped borders on boards and lettering stamped in gold on spine ; ?binding variant 'B' as found in Carter, 1932.
Binding
Copies 5-7: Housed in late 20th century green morocco and cloth box with gilt lettering and tooling, with two other copies.
Binding
Copy 6: Publisher's teal (or dull green) diaper cloth with blind stamped borders on boards and lettering stamped in gold on spine ; ?binding variant 'B' as found in Carter, 1932.
Binding
Copy 7: Publisher's remainder binding of green sand grain cloth, with blind stamped line border and gold stamped framed lettering on front board ; binding variant 'C' as found in Carter, 1932.
Binding
Copy 8: 19th century green morocco half-binding with green/blue marbled paper boards, gilt tooling on boards and spine, and gilt lettering on spine.
Copy-specific note
Copies 1-6 and 8: Ms. bookseller's notes in pencil.
Copy-specific note
Copy 5: Ms. ownership signature.
Copy-specific note
Copy 6: Ms. inscription: "To Sydney, in memory of my father, June 1921."
Copy-specific note
Copy 8: Ms. correction ?in Arabel Barrett's hand - p. 5.
Subject
Christianity Personal narratives.
Added entry--name
Meredith, Michael, 1936 - ? donor.
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Blair, J. Insley, 1876 - 1939 former owner.
Added entry--name
Blair, J. Insley, 1883 - 1951 former owner.
Added entry--name
Wissenden, W. former owner.
Added entry--name
Gosse, Edmund, 1849 - 1928 former owner.
Added entry--name
Berkeley, Mary Emlen Lloyd former owner.
Added entry--name
Hartley, L. P., 1895 - 1972 inscriber.
Added entry--name
Mudie, Charles Edward, 1818 - 1890 former owner.
Added entry--name
Browning, Robert, 1812 - 1889 inscriber.
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Ward, Humphry, 1851 - 1920 former owner.
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Ward, Thomas Humphry, 1845 - 1926 former owner.
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Millard, Henry former owner.
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Moulton-Barrett, Edward R. (Edward Richard), 1916 - ? former owner.
Added entry--name
Barrett, Arabella, ? - d. 1868 former owner.
Added entry--name
Chapman and Hall publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B29069