Shelfmark
Id3.4.21(01) (Copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
Id3.4.21(02) (Copy 2)
Additional shelfmark
Id3.4.21(03) (Copy 3)
Additional shelfmark
Id3.4.22 ( Copy 4)
Author
Title
Casa Guidi windows : a poem / by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Chapman & Hall, 1851.
Physical description
viii, 140 p. ; 17 cm.
Note
With a half-title.
Note
Includes notes.
Note
Copy 1: Publisher's 1st issue blue ribbed cloth with floral and shell blind stamped border on boards and lettering stamped in gold on spine.
Note
Copies 2 and 4: Publisher's variant blue ribbed cloth with ornamental border and arabesque blind stamped on boards, lettering stamped in gold on spine, and 17 leaf bookseller's catalogue inserted after text.
Note
Copy 3: Publisher's later variant blue ribbed cloth with blind stamped ornamental border on boards and lettering stamped in gold on spine
Citation/references note
Barnes, A7
Provenance
Copies 1-4: From the Michael Meredith Browning Collection; copies 2-4 with bookplate.
Provenance
Copy 3: Ms. ownership inscription of a friend of the Brownings': "Florence [?]S. FitzPatrick, May 1858. Firenze."
Provenance
Copy 3: Bookseller's ticket (Edward Goodban, Florence).
Provenance
Copy 4: Ms. inscription: "Revd. J. Stratten with A[rabella]. Barrett's sincere regards. May 28th /51."
Provenance
Copy 4: Bookseller's ticket (S. Tichbourne, London).
Binding
Copies 1-3: Housed together in one late 20th century red cloth and morocco box with gilt lettering and tooling.
Copy-specific note
Copies 1-3: Ms. booksellers' notes ; copies 1-3: in pencil.
Copy-specific note
Copy 3: Ms. note in pencil in Michael Meredith's hand about the provenance of this book on endpaper.
Copy-specific note
Copy 4: Ms. annotations in pencil on back endpaper and final page of publisher's catalogue.
Subject
Subject
Italy History 1849-1870.
Added entry--name
Meredith, Michael, 1936 - ? former owner.
Added entry--name
FitzPatrick, Florence former owner.
Added entry--name
Goodban, Edward bookseller.
Added entry--name
Barrett, Arabella, ? - d. 1868 inscriber.
Added entry--name
Stratten, J. former owner.
Added entry--name
Tichbourne, S. bookseller.
Added entry--name
Chapman and Hall publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B30635