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Id2.5.06 (Copy 1)
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Id2.5.07 (Copy 2)
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Id2.5.08 (Copy 3)
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Id2.5.09 (Copy 4)
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Id2.5.10 (Copy 5)
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Id2.5.11 (Copy 6)
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Id2.5.12 (Copy 7)
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Id2.5.13 (Copy 8)
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Id4.5.17 (Copy 9)
Author
Uniform title
[Herakles. English. 1875]
Title
Aristophanes' apology : including a transcript from Euripides, being the last adventure of Balaustion / by Robert Browning.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Smith, Elder & Co., 1875.
Physical description
[6], 366, [2] p. ; 18 cm.
Note
With a half-title.
Note
Final advertisement leaf.
Note
Publisher's green ribbed cloth with black stamped decorative border on front board, and lettering and device stamped in gold on spine.
Note
Copies 1, 2, 3, 8, 9: Binding variant with sans serif lettering at foot of spine.
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Copies 4 and 5: Binding variant with blind stamped decorative border on back board and sans serif lettering at foot of spine.
Note
Copy 6: Binding variant with serif lettering at foot of spine ?bound in 1886 or 1887.
Provenance
Copies 1-7: From the Michael Meredith Browning Collection, with bookplate.
Provenance
Copy 1: Ms. inscription: "F. J. Furnivall, 28 Oct. 1881".
Provenance
Copy 2: Ms. inscription: "Robert Scott-Moncrieff, a Birthday remembrance, May 20. 1875, with all good wishes from his friend F. J. Mott."
Provenance
Copy 5: Ms. inscription in pencil: "B. H. Tower, Sedbergh".
Provenance
Copy 7: Armorial bookplate of the Panshanger library with ms. inscription: "Lord Cowper [Thomas de Grey] - with R[obert]. B[rowning].'s best regards. May 20, '75."
Provenance
Copy 8: Ms. inscription: "John & Lucy Beach, 1914".
Provenance
Copy 8: Ms. inscription: "Edward Dowden, April. 1875."
Provenance
Copy 9: Booklabel of Anne Thackeray Ritchie.
Provenance
Copy 9: Ms. inscription on front endpaper : "Miss Thackery, with the author's true regard. May 20, '75".
Provenance
Copy 9: Ms. note in pencil on front endpaper.
Binding
Copy 1: Housed in 20th century tan morocco and cloth box with gilt lettering and tooling.
Binding
Copy 7: 19th century vellum half-binding with blue and pink marbled cream paper boards, gilt borders tooled on boards, with gilt tooling on spine, black and tan leather decorative on-lay on spine, and gilt on red leather lettering piece on spine, marbled endpapers and sprinkled edges ; bound without advertisement leaf.
Copy-specific note
Copies 1-8: Ms. bookseller's notes in pencil.
Copy-specific note
Copies 2 and 4: Leaves unopened.
Copy-specific note
Copy 1: Extensive ms. notes on front endpaper and ms. annotations throughout text in F. J. Furnivall's hand.
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Copy 2: Photographic portrait of Robert Browning tipped-in after title-page.
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Copy 3: Bookseller's description pasted onto front endpaper.
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Copy 5: Ms. annotations - title-page and p. 1.
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Copy 6: Two loose periodical clippings about the sale of literary artefacts at auction, and the Browning Society's search for Casa Guidi furniture, respectively.
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Copy 8: Ms. annotations throughout text and on advertisement leaf verso in pencil.
Copy-specific note
Copy 9: Flower and leaves of a plant placed within book.
Added entry--name
Meredith, Michael, 1936 - ? donor.
Added entry--name
Mott, F. J. inscriber.
Added entry--name
Browning, Robert, 1812 - 1889 inscriber.
Added entry--name
Furnivall, Frederick James, 1825 - 1910 former owner.
Added entry--name
Scott-Moncrieff, Robert former owner.
Added entry--name
Tower, B. H. former owner.
Added entry--name
Cowper, Thomas de Grey, 1834 - ? former owner.
Added entry--name
Beach, John former owner.
Added entry--name
Beach, Lucy former owner.
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Dowden, Edward, 1843 - 1913 former owner.
Added entry--name
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, 1837 - 1919 former owner.
Added entry--name
Smith, Elder & Co. publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng grc
Identifier
B29278