The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, with Two Prose Essays
by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
London Edinburgh, Etc.: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1920. Title page dated 1920. Browning's collected works in a lovely Arts & Crafts style binding. Full brown leather lettered and decorated in gilt, black and red, the black bding in heavily embossed portions, top edge gilt, frontis portrait, 667 pages printed on thin paper. The book has some roughness to the corners and spine ends but no large chips, good hinges, sound text block, slightly age-toned but clean pages, Barrett's poem "How do I love thee" in neatly handwritten on a preliminary blank along with London 16 Feb 1944 (during World War II), no other names or markings.. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 038067
- Title
- The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, with Two Prose Essays
- Author
- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Publisher
- Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- London Edinburgh, Etc.
- Date Published
- 1920
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- ARTS & CRAFTS LEATHER BINDING BRITISH POETS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Literary History;
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