Shelfmark
Id3.5.24
Author
Title
Andromeda in Wimpole Street : the romance of Elizabeth Barrett Browning / by Dormer Creston.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1929.
Physical description
282 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
Note
Dormer Creston is a psuedonym of Doreen Baynes.
Note
With a half-title.
Note
Publisher's dark blue cloth with decoration and device blind stamped on boards, and printed title label on spine.
Provenance
From the Michael Meredith Browning Collection ; bookplate of the Michael Meredith Browning Collection.
Provenance
Ownership stamp of Macleod Yearsley dated 1929-09-20.
Copy-specific note
Theatrical ephemera and periodical clippings pasted in throughout preliminaries relating to the first production of the theatrical adaptation of this book, "The Barretts of Wimpole Street".
Copy-specific note
Copy of a photograph of 50 Wimpole Street taken in 1929 pasted onto front pastedown.
Copy-specific note
Facsimiles of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning mss. pasted in throughout first pages of text.
Copy-specific note
Ms. addressed envelope in Robert Browning's hand pasted in opposite the portrait of him.
Copy-specific note
Periodical clipping featuring a review of a collection of the love letters of the Brownings pasted onto back endpaper.
Copy-specific note
Ms. letter of Doreen Baynes/Dormer Creston about this book pasted onto front endpaper.
Copy-specific note
Loose ms. letter of Joseph Joachin.
Copy-specific note
Some ms. annotations in pencil throughout text.
Subject
Subject
Added entry--name
Yearsley, Percival Macleod, 1867 - 1951 former owner.
Added entry--name
Meredith, Michael, 1936 - ? former owner.
Added entry--name
Joachim, Joseph, 1831 - 1907 correspondent.
Added entry--name
Creston, Dormer, ? - 1973 correspondent.
Added entry--name
Thornton Butterworth Ltd. publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B30542