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Id2.5.17 (Copy 1)
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Id2.5.18 (Copy 2)
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Id2.5.19 (Copy 3)
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Id2.5.20 (Copy 4)
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Id2.5.21 (Copy 5)
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Id2.5.22 (Copy 6)
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Id2.5.23 (Copy 7)
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Id2.5.24 (Copy 8)
Author
Title
Pacchiarotto and how he worked in a distemper : with other poems / by Robert Browning.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Smith, Elder & Co., 1876.
Physical description
viii, 242, [2] p. ; 18 cm.
Note
With a half-title.
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Final advertisement leaf.
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Publisher's brown/grey ribbed cloth with black stamped decorative border on boards, and lettering and device stamped in gold on spine.
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Copies 1, 2 and 8: Variant binding with large 'o' in lettering at foot of spine.
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Copy 3: Variant binding with altered device on spine and small 'o' in lettering at foot of spine.
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Copy 4: Variant grey binding with altered device and small 'o' on spine.
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Copy 5: Variant grey binding with second altered device on spine, and small 'o' in lettering at foot of spine.
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Copy 6: Variant ?post 1879 (lacking 'by' on spine which is first used on "Dramatic idyls") grey binding with altered device and no comma and large 'o' in lettering at foot of spine.
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Copy 7: Variant grey binding with altered device and large 'o' on spine.
Provenance
Copies 1-7: From the Michael Meredith Browning Collection, with bookplate.
Provenance
Copy 2: Ms. inscription: "Emilia F. S. Dilke [previous name E. F. S. Pattison]".
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Copy 3: Ms. inscription: "Hugh Robert Mill".
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Copy 7: Bookseller's ticket (H. V. Day, Dorchester).
Provenance
Copy 8: Ms. inscription: "John & Lucy Beach, 1914".
Provenance
Copy 8: Ms. inscription in pencil: "Edward Dowden."
Copy-specific note
Copies 1-7: Ms. bookseller's notes in pencil.
Copy-specific note
Copy 1: Leaves unopened.
Copy-specific note
Copy 2: Ms. annotations in pencil throughout text (including the date on which some of the poems were written) in Lady Dilke's hand.
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Copy 3: Ms. annotations in pencil throughout text ?in Hugh Robert Mill's hand.
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Copy 8: Ms. annotations in pencil on back endpaper.
Added entry--name
Meredith, Michael, 1936 - ? donor.
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Day, H. V. bookseller.
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Dilke, Emilia Francis Strong, 1840 - 1904 former owner.
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Mill, Hugh Robert, 1861 - 1950 former owner.
Added entry--name
Beach, John former owner.
Added entry--name
Beach, Lucy former owner.
Added entry--name
Dowden, Edward, 1843 - 1913 former owner.
Added entry--name
Smith, Elder & Co. publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B29282