Shelfmark
Id3.2.02(01)-Id3.2.02(02) (Copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
Id3.2.05-Id3.2.06 (Copy 2)
Additional shelfmark
Id3.2.07-Id3.2.08 (Copy 3)
Author
Collective uniform title
Poems. Selections
Title
A selection from the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Edition
New edition.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Smith, Elder, & Co., 1884.
Physical description
2 v. ; 17 cm.
Note
With a half-title.
Note
Publisher's brown cloth, with black and blind stamped frames on boards, and gold lettering and decoration stamped on spine.
Provenance
Copy 1: Ms. inscription: "Miss Palgrave - with all regards and best wishes from Robert Browning. Feb. 8. '87."
Provenance
Copy 2: From the Michael Meredith Browning Collection, with book label.
Provenance
Copy 2: Ms. inscription: "Dear Mrs [Katherine] Bronson from her very affectionate Gery Milner Gibson Cullum. A memorial of Cambridge Sept 1st. but this written at Venice Nov 11. 1886."
Provenance
Copy 2: Bookseller's stamp (Macmillan and Bowes, Cambridge).
Provenance
Copy 3: Ms. inscription in both vols: "F. Blewitt, Nov. 28th 84, F. N. & Co."
Binding
Copy 1: 19th century blue morocco, with gilt lettering on spine, gilt tooling on turn-ins, gilt edges, and decorated endpapers ; bound by Buttaby, London (binder's stamp) ; housed in late 20th century blue morocco and cloth box, with gilt lettering and tooling ; made by R. L. Day.
Binding
Copy 2: Both vols with 19th century tan speckled calf, gilt fillet frames on boards, gilt stamps and lettering on spines, gilt tooling on turn-ins, marbled edges and endpapers ; bound by J. B. Hawes, Cambridge (binder's stamp).
Copy-specific note
Copy 1: Loose copy of a photographic portrait of Robert Browning, with ms. inscription: "R. Browning : 1889, the last English photograph. (from R[obert]. B[arrett]. B[rowning]. Feb 1890)".
Copy-specific note
Copy 1: Two vols bound together.
Copy-specific note
Copies 2 and 3: Ms. booksellers' notes in pencil.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Browning, Robert, 1812 - 1889 inscriber.
Added entry--name
Day, R. L. binder.
Added entry--name
Meredith, Michael, 1936 - ? former owner.
Added entry--name
Bronson, Katharine de Kay, 1834 - 1901 former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Hawes, J. B. binder.
Added entry--name
Blewitt, F. former owner.
Added entry--name
Smith, Elder & Co. publisher.
Added entry--name
Buttaby binder.
Added entry--name
Macmillan and Bowes bookseller.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B30992