Shelfmark
Id2.4.32
Author
Title
Parleyings with certain people of importance in their day : to wit: Bernard de Mandeville, Daniel Bartoli, Christopher Smart, George Bubb Dodington, Francis Furini, Gerard de Lairesse, and Charles Avison. Introduced by a dialogue between Apollo and the Fates ; concluded by another between John Fust and his friends / by Robert Browning.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Smith, Elder & Co., 1887.
Physical description
[8], 268 p. ; 19 cm.
Note
Proofs.
Note
With a half-title.
Provenance
From the Michael Meredith Browning Collection, with bookplate.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of the Newton Hall library of Sir Charles Waldstein (later Walston).
Provenance
Ms. letter (dated 1987-01-07) in Robert Browning's hand pasted onto front enpaper, gifting these proofs to George Barnett Smith.
Binding
19th century brown morocco with gilt tooled borders on boards, gilt lettering and stamps on spine, gilt tooling on turn-ins, and marbled endpapers ; bound by Zaehnsdorf (binder's stamp).
Copy-specific note
Ms. bookseller's notes in pencil.
Copy-specific note
Ms. corrections in ink throughout text in the author's hand.
Copy-specific note
Ms. annotations in pencil before each poem.
Added entry--name
Meredith, Michael, 1936 - ? donor.
Added entry--name
Browning, Robert, 1812 - 1889 proofreader.
Added entry--name
Smith, George Barnett, 1841 - 1909 former owner.
Added entry--name
Hall, Newton Marshall, 1865 - 1929 former owner.
Added entry--name
Smith, Elder & Co. publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B29330