Click for full-size.
The Complete Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Cambridge Edition)
by BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT; HARRIET AWTERS PRESTON (Editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Hinges somewhat cracked & fragile, else very good. Light edgewear to covers. Text lightly browned at margins yet clean. Lacking
- Seller
-
Asheville, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Hinges somewhat cracked & fragile, else very good. Light edgewear to covers. Text lightly browned at margins yet clean. Lacking dust jacket.. Demy 8vo. 5.75 x 8.5 in. xviii, 530, [2] pp. Original full olive green cloth, titled & ornamented in gilt, top edge gilt. Published as part of 'The Cambridge Edition of the Poets', edited by HORACE E. SCUDDER. Photographic portrait frontis. Riverside Press. Charming Arts & Crafts binding.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Irving Book Company
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 730
- Title
- The Complete Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Cambridge Edition)
- Author
- BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT; HARRIET AWTERS PRESTON (Editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Hinges somewhat cracked & fragile, else very good. Light edgewear to covers. Text lightly browned at margins yet clean. Lacking
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton, Mifflin and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1900
Terms of Sale
Irving Book Company
All items subject to prior sale.
About the Seller
Irving Book Company
Biblio member since 2021
Asheville, North Carolina
About Irving Book Company
Classical, Catholic, Southern, Photographic, Poetic, Scholarly, and early Modern Library Editions, &c.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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...
Frequently asked questions
This Book’s Categories
Signed vs. Inscribed
Know what you are getting into when purchasing rare books, and learn the difference between signed books and inscribed books.
Mary Shelley - Mother of Science Fiction
“I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.” - Learn more about Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein
