Shelfmark
Id3.4.10(01)-Id3.4.10(02) (Copy 1)
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Id3.4.11(01)-Id3.4.11(02) (Copy 2)
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Id3.4.12-Id3.4.13 (Copy 3)
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Id3.4.14-Id3.4.15 (Copy 4)
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Id3.4.16-Id3.4.17 (Copy 5)
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Id3.4.18 (Copy 6)
Author
Title
Poems / by Elizabeth Barrett Barrett ...
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Edward Moxon, MDCCCXLIV [1844]
Physical description
2 v. (8, xvi, 250, [2] ; iv, 276 p.) ; 18 cm.
Note
Eight page publisher's catalogue tipped-in between front endpapers and final advertisement leaf in vol 1.
Note
Publisher's green ribbed cloth with decorative panel blind stamped on boards and lettering stamped in gold on spine (Carter 'A' binding).
Citation/references note
Carter, 1938.
Provenance
Copies 2 and 4: From the Michael Meredith Browning Collection, with bookplate.
Provenance
Copy 1: Ms. inscription: "To my dearest Papa, with grateful affection from his own Ba [Elizabeth Barrett Barrett afterwards Browning] - August 1844."
Provenance
Copy 2: Ms. inscription: "Fanny J. Dowglass from her affectionate friend E. B. B. - London - 1846 -".
Provenance
Copy 3: Ms. inscription in vol 1: "Georgina Elizabeth Barrett, from her affectionate Ba [Elizabeth Barrett Barrett afterwards Browning]. August 1844." with the recipient's name repeated in the author's hand in vol 2.
Provenance
Copy 5: Ms. inscription (in pencil but overwitten in ink): "Wm. Stirling from E. Barrett" but not in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's hand.
Provenance
Copy 6: Ms. inscription in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's hand: "Charles John M[oulton] Barrett".
Binding
Copy 1: Both vols housed together in late 10th century brown morocco and marbled paper box, with gilt lettering and tooling.
Binding
Copy 2: 19th century blue leather, with gilt frames on boards, and gilt lettering and tooling on spines, with marbled endpapers ; bound without advertisement leaves ; bound by Sizer (binder's stamp) ; both vols housed together in ?20th century blue morocco and cloth box with gilt lettering.
Copy-specific note
Copies 4 and 5: Ms. booksellers' notes in pencil.
Copy-specific note
Copy 2: Ms. inscription in both vols: "Pollock".
Copy-specific note
Copy 2: Two ms. sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning on p. 121 of vol 1, entitled "Life" and "The prospect" and not published in this work.
Copy-specific note
Copy 6: Vol 2 only.
Added entry--name
Meredith, Michael, 1936 - ? former owner.
Added entry--name
Moulton-Barrett, Edward, 1785 - 1857 former owner.
Added entry--name
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806 - 1861 inscriber.
Added entry--name
Moxon, Edward, 1801 - 1858 publisher.
Added entry--name
Dowglass, Fanny Jane former owner.
Added entry--name
Barrett, Georgina Elizabeth former owner.
Added entry--name
Stirling, William former owner.
Added entry--name
Moulton-Barrett, Charles John former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B30568