Aurora Leigh
by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- very good
- Seller
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1887. Hardcover. very good. 20th Edition. 403pp. 12mo. Original green cloth with gilt decoration on front cover and gilt decoration and lettering on spine. Bevelled edges. Coated grey endpapers. Contents page detached but present. Slight wear to extremities. Gift inscription on half title page in ink. very good 1887
Synopsis
Aurora Leigh is an eponymous epic novel/poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The poem is written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number, the number of the prophetic books of the Sibyl). It is a first person narration, from the point of view of Aurora; its other heroine, Marian Erle, is an abused self-taught child of itinerant parents. The poem is set in Florence, Malvern, London, and Paris.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 114956
- Title
- Aurora Leigh
- Author
- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Smith, Elder & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1887
- Keywords
- Poems
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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