The Poets' Enchiridion: A Hitherto Unpublished Poem, with an Inedited Address to Uvedale Price on His Eightieth Birthday, An Early Invocation to Sleep, and a Preliminary Draft of the Renowed Poem Catarina to Camoens / By Elizabeth Barrett Barrett (Afterwa
by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
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- very good
- first
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- Very Good/No Jacket
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About This Item
Printed Exclusively for Members of The Bibliophile Society, 1914. First Edition. Unknown. Very Good/No Jacket. Tall 8vo. 53 pages. Upper cover title: Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Half-title: The Poets' Enchiridion, Address to Uvedale Price, An Invocation to Sleep, Catarina to Camoens. First publications from the original manuscript copies, included in the famous sale of Mrs. Browning's manuscripts to one Henry H. Harper. Uncredited introductory note, plus text of the address 'Elizabeth Barrett Browning: New Data' by H. Buxton Forman. One of an unspecified number of copies, printed on Van Gelder Holland paper, bound in half white vellum over brown cloth, upper cover stamped gilt, enclosed in publisher's double slipcases. Slight external wear and tape repair to slipcases; else an exceptionally well-preserved copy of a fairly scarce item.Decorative Title Vignette / headpieces; Few Musical Examples.
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- Bookseller
- Arundel Books of Seattle
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- L040390
- Title
- The Poets' Enchiridion: A Hitherto Unpublished Poem, with an Inedited Address to Uvedale Price on His Eightieth Birthday, An Early Invocation to Sleep, and a Preliminary Draft of the Renowed Poem Catarina to Camoens / By Elizabeth Barrett Barrett (Afterwa
- Author
- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
- Format/Binding
- Unknown
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Printed Exclusively for Members of The Bibliophile Society
- Date Published
- 1914
- Keywords
- Poetry Browning, Elizabeth Barrett English Literature 19th Century English Poetry Forman, H. Buxton Bibliophile Society Limited, , , , , ,
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