Shelfmark
Id3.4.05 (Copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
Id3.4.06 (Copy 2)
Additional shelfmark
Id3.4.07 (Copy 3)
Author
Title
The Seraphim, and other poems / by Elizabeth B. Barrett ...
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Saunders and Otley, 1838.
Physical description
xxii, 360 p. ; 20 cm.
Note
With a half-title.
Note
Copy 1: Publisher's purple diaper cloth with blind stamped panels on boards and lettering and decoration stamped in gold on spine.
Note
Copy 2: Publisher's variant purple ribbed cloth with decoration blind stamped on boards, and lettering and decoration stamped in gold on spine.
Note
Copy 3: Publisher's variant ?purple diaper cloth decoration blind stamped on boards, and lettering and decoration stamped in gold on spine.
Provenance
Copies 1 and 3: From the Michael Meredith Browning Collection, with bookplate.
Provenance
Copy 2: Ms. inscription: "Georgina Elizabeth Barrett, from her ever affectionate Ba [Elizabeth Barrett Browning]. September - 1844."
Provenance
Copy 3: Armorial bookplate of Lord Carlingford.
Provenance
Copy 3: Ms. inscription: "To the Revd. G. B. Hunter, from his always affectionate friend, the author."
Binding
Copy 3: 19th century [?]green morocco slipcase with gilt lettering on spine, with additional poem of one of the poems on spine: "My doves".
Copy-specific note
Copy 1: Ms. booksellers' notes and prices in pencil, with loose bookseller's description from the 'Anderson Auction' of 1907.
Copy-specific note
Copy 3: Dove feather taped onto p. 302.
Copy-specific note
Copy 3: Ms. annotations throughout text in pencil and on front endpapers in Greek in ink.
Copy-specific note
Copy 3: Ms. bookseller's note in pencil.
Genre/Form
Poems.
Added entry--name
Meredith, Michael, 1936 - ? former owner.
Added entry--name
Barrett, Georgina Elizabeth former owner.
Added entry--name
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806 - 1861 inscriber.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Hunter, George Barrett, 1798 - 1857 former owner.
Added entry--name
Saunders and Otley publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B30559