Shelfmark
Id1.4.30 (Copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
Id1.4.31 (Copy 2)
Additional shelfmark
Id1.4.32 (Copy 3)
Additional shelfmark
Id1.4.33 (Copy 4)
Additional shelfmark
Id1.3.02 (Copy 5)
Author
Title
Dramatis personæ / by Robert Browning.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1864.
Physical description
[4], 250, [2] p. ; 19 cm.
Note
With a half-title.
Note
Final advertisement leaf.
Note
Publisher's plum pebble-grain cloth with blind stamped border on boards and lettering stamped in gold on spine.
Note
Copy 1: With the ?latterly added 'heavy paper' contents leaf ; Copy 2: ?early printing, lacking contents leaf ; Copies 3 and 5: with 'lighter paper' contents leaf.
Provenance
Copies 1, 2, 3, 5: From the Michael Meredith Browning Collection, with bookplate.
Provenance
Copy 1: Bookplate of John Drinkwater with ms. inscription: "John Drinkwater from Edmund Gosse."
Provenance
Copy 4: From the Moulton-Barrett library.
Provenance
Copy 4: Ms. inscription: "To dearest Arabel, from her brother, R[obert]. B[rowning]. June 4. '64."
Provenance
Copy 5: Booklabels of Judith Adams and Simon Nowell-Smith.
Provenance
Copy 5: Ms. inscription: "E. Fanny Haworth, from her affectionate friend Robert Browning. London, June 9 '63."
Binding
Copy 5: Housed in 21st century burgundy cloth and morocco box, with gilt lettering and tooling.
Copy-specific note
Copies 1, 2, 3, 5: Ms. bookseller's notes in pencil.
Copy-specific note
Copy 1: Ms. annotation on half-title ?in John Drinkwater's hand.
Copy-specific note
Copy 2: Ms. annotations and extensive additions to the text in pencil and ink in Leonard Courtney's hand.
Copy-specific note
Copy 2: Two loose ms. letters, one from F. G. Kenyon (dated 1912-06-17), and one from J. B. Mayor (dated 1908-09-18), about this text.
Copy-specific note
Copy 2: Ms. pencil sketch of a landmark on front endpaper.
Copy-specific note
Copy 5: Ms. annotations in pencil throughout text.
Added entry--name
Meredith, Michael, 1936 - ? donor.
Added entry--name
Drinkwater, John, 1882 - 1937 former owner.
Added entry--name
Courtney, Leonard Henry, 1832 - 1918 former owner.
Added entry--name
Moulton-Barrett, Edward R. (Edward Richard), 1916 - ? former owner.
Added entry--name
Barrett, Arabella, ? - d. 1868 former owner.
Added entry--name
Gosse, Edmund, 1849 - 1928 inscriber.
Added entry--name
Browning, Robert, 1812 - 1889 inscriber.
Added entry--name
Haworth, Euphrasia Fanny, 1801 - 1883 former owner.
Added entry--name
Nowell-Smith, Judith Adams former owner.
Added entry--name
Nowell-Smith, Simon, 1909 - ? former owner.
Added entry--name
Chapman and Hall publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B29092