Shelfmark
Id1.1.44 (Copy 1)
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Id2.5.01 (Copy 2)
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Id2.5.02 (Copy 3)
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Id2.5.03 (Copy 4)
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Id2.5.04 (Copy 5)
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Id2.5.05 (Copy 6)
Author
Title
Red cotton night-cap country, or, Turf and towers / by Robert Browning.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Smith, Elder & Co., 1873.
Physical description
[4], 282 p. ; 17 cm.
Note
Publisher's green ribbed cloth with black stamped border on boards, and lettering and device stamped in gold on spine.
Provenance
Copies 1, 2, 3, 4, 6: From the Michael Meredith Browning Collection, copies 1, 2, 3, 6 with bookplate.
Provenance
Copy 1: Ms. inscription: "Mrs. George Smith [Elizabeth Smith] - with the kindest regards of Robert Browning. May 5. '73."
Provenance
Copy 3: Ms. inscription: "[Name cut out], from Eliza FitzGerald, Sept 1896. The only copy I have without R.B.'s autograph of his poems, brought to replace an old one".
Provenance
Copy 4: Bookplate of Edith Peruzzi de' Medici (née Story), with ms. inscription: "To Dearest Edie - from her affectionately, Robert Browning, London, May 3. '73".
Provenance
Copy 5: Given to Eton College Library by Belinda Norman-Butler.
Provenance
Copy 5: Ms. inscription: "William Thackeray Denis Ritchie - commended to his kind consideration some years hence by his Grandfather's and Mother's friend and admirer, Robert Browning. April 17. '81."
Provenance
Copy 5: Gilt stamp on spine: "A. I. T." and bookplate of Anne Thackeray Ritchie, with ms. inscription: "Dear Miss Thackeray, - all the book is yours, - but this particular copy is yours in the ordinary sense, along with the truest thanks & regard of R. Browning. May 5. '73".
Provenance
Copy 6: Ms. inscription: "To the Attorney-General [John Duke Coleridge]. - nisi quid tu, docte Trebati, Dissentis! Trebatio gratias agens, R. B[rowning]."
Binding
Copy 1: Housed in 20th century green morocco and cloth box with gilt lettering and tooling.
Binding
Copy 4: ?Late 19th century dark green morocco, with blind tooling on boards and spine, gilt lettering on spine, gilt tooling on turn-ins, and gilt edges.
Binding
Copy 5: 19th century brown ?calf with gilt tooled borders on boards, gilt tooling on spine, gilt on brown leather lettering piece on spine, gilt tooling on turn-ins, marbled endpapers and marbled edges.
Binding
Copy 6: 19th century red and black marbled brown claf with gilt tooled border on boards, gilt tooling on spine, gilt on two bown leather lettering pieces on spine, and marbled endpapers ; bound by Riviere & Son (binder's stamp).
Copy-specific note
Copies 2, 4, 6: Ms. bookseller's notes in pencil.
Copy-specific note
Copy 2: Some leaves unopened.
Copy-specific note
Copy 3: Revolutionary propagander portrait of Louis XVI in a 'bonnet rouge' tipped-in between pp. 20 and 21.
Copy-specific note
Copy 3: Ms. annotations throughout text in pencil and ink ?in Eliza Fitzgerald's hand.
Copy-specific note
Copy 6: Monogram bookplate: "C. E. M."
Copy-specific note
Copy 6: Two bookseller's descriptions pasted onto front endpaper.
Added entry--name
Meredith, Michael, 1936 - ? donor.
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Browning, Robert, 1812 - 1889 inscriber.
Added entry--name
Smith, Elizabeth Blakeway former owner.
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FitzGerald, Thomas, 1809 - 1899 former owner.
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Peruzzi, Edith Marion, 1844 - 1907 former owner.
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Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, 1837 - 1919 former owner.
Added entry--name
Ritchie, William Thackeray Denis, 1880 - 1964 former owner.
Added entry--name
Coleridge, John Duke, 1820 - 1894 former owner.
Added entry--name
Smith, Elder & Co. publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B29276