Shelfmark
Id1.4.14-Id1.4.15 (Copy 1)
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Id1.4.16-Id1.4.17 (Copy 2)
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Id1.4.18(01)-Id1.4.18(02) (Copy 3)
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Id1.4.19-Id1.4.20 (Copy 4)
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Id1.4.21 (Copy 5)
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Id4.5.18-Id4.5.19 (Copy 6)
Author
Title
Men and women / by Robert Browning.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1855.
Physical description
2 v. (iv, 260 ; iv, 242, [2] p.) ; 17 cm.
Note
Vol 2 with final advertisement leaf.
Note
Copies 1-3: Publisher's green morocco cloth with blind stamped floral and line border on boards and lettering stamped in gold on spine ; binding variant 'A' as found in "Binding variants", Carter, 1932.
Note
Copy 4: Publisher's ?secondary green sand grain cloth with blind stamped floral and line border on boards and lettering stamped in gold on spine ; binding variant 'B' as found in Carter, 1932.
Provenance
Copies 1-4: From the Michael Meredith Browning Collection, with bookplate.
Provenance
Copy 1: Bookplate of J. Albert Way, with ms. date: "1857."
Provenance
Copy 2: Bookplate of Alan Lubbock.
Provenance
Copy 3: Vol 1 with pictorial bookplate of Charles Dickens and Gadshill sale bookplate.
Provenance
Copy 4: Bookplate of Mark Samuels Lasner.
Provenance
Copy 5: From the Moulton-Barrett library.
Provenance
Copy 5: Ms. inscription: "To Arabella Barrett, from her affectionate & grateful, Robert Browning - [?]Vintner, August 26. '56."
Provenance
Copy 6: Booklable of Anne Thackeray Ritchie.
Binding
Copy 3: Housed in late 20th century brown morocco and cloth box with gilt lettering and tooling.
Binding
Copy 4: Housed in late 20th century green cloth folders inside green morocco and cloth slipcases, with gilt lettering and tooling.
Binding
Copy 5: 19th century green morocco half-binding with green/blue marbled paper boards, gilt tooling on boards and spine, and gilt lettering on spine.
Binding
Copy 6: 19th century black morocco with gilt tooling on boards and spine, and gilt lettering on spine.
Copy-specific note
Copies 1 and 4: Ms. bookseller's notes in pencil.
Copy-specific note
Copy 1: Ms. annotations throughout text.
Copy-specific note
Copy 2: Ms. annotations in pencil throughout text of "By the fire-side" and on back endpaper of vol 1.
Copy-specific note
Copy 2: Vol 2 with ms. illegible ownership signature in pencil.
Copy-specific note
Copy 5: Vol 1 only.
Added entry--name
Meredith, Michael, 1936 - ? donor.
Added entry--name
Way, J. Albert former owner.
Added entry--name
Lubbock, Alan, 1897 - 1990 former owner.
Added entry--name
Dickens, Charles, 1812 - 1870 former owner.
Added entry--name
Samuels Lasner, Mark, 1952 - ? former owner.
Added entry--name
Browning, Robert, 1812 - 1889 inscriber.
Added entry--name
Moulton-Barrett, Edward R. (Edward Richard), 1916 - ? former owner.
Added entry--name
Barrett, Arabella, ? - d. 1868 former owner.
Added entry--name
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, 1837 - 1919 former owner.
Added entry--name
Chapman and Hall publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B29076