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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description
- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
- Sonnets. Reading: Not for Publication, 1847 [but Richard Clay & Sons, c.1893]
- Paper
small 8vo, half-title, full red morocco by Riviere & Son, gilt dentelles, top edge gilt, some offsetting to edges of endpapers
Literature
Barnes B2; Carter and Pollard p.167, pp.361-398 (recording 36 copies); Todd 68f; Wise 12
Condition
Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate.
"In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. Prospective buyers should also refer to any Important Notices regarding this sale, which are printed in the Sale Catalogue.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."
"In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. Prospective buyers should also refer to any Important Notices regarding this sale, which are printed in the Sale Catalogue.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."
Catalogue Note
THE MOST NOTORIOUS OF FORMAN/WISE FORGERIES.
"By forging Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese '1847', Wise and Forman were tampering with the most celebrated literary love story of Victorian England." (Collins, John, The Two Forgers (1992), p.105)
Browning's Sonnets were first published in the second edition of her Poems which appeared in 1850. The "history" of this supposed earlier edition, which apparently existed in only a few copies printed on the instruction of her husband and with the help of Mary Russell Mitford, was concocted by the forgers and included by Edmund Gosse in his introduction to an edition of Browning's poetry published in late 1894.