BROWNING. A COLLECTION OF 7 WORKS, 1845 - 1914 (10 VOL.)

i) A Drama of Exile. New York: Langley, 1845, FIRST EDITION, volume 1 only, original cloth [Barnes A5a]; ii) Two Poems. Chapman & Hall, 1854, FIRST EDITION, original wrappers [Barnes A9]; iii) Last Poems. Chapman & Hall, 1862, FIRST EDITION, second impression, full blue morocco by Lefort [Barnes A13]; iv) The Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. New York: Miller, 1867, 3 volumes, original cloth [Barnes E53]; v) The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. New York: Macmillan, 1897, 2 volumes, three-quarter calf [Barnes E222], worn with lower boards detached; vi) Lady Geraldine's Courtship. New York: G.P. Putnam's and Sons, [c.1903-04], thin 32mo, "vest pocket" edition, full red morocco, worn, a few pages loose; vii) The Poet's Enchiridion. Massachusetts: The Bibliophile Society, 1914, one of 500 copies, original vellum backed boards [Barnes B8]; mostly 8vo, worn, some spotting and browning (10)

ii) John Whipple Frothingham, bookplate; iii) Walter Thomas Wallace, New Jersey, bookplate; his sale, American Art Association, New York, 22 March 1920, lot 108; vii) Roswell Field, bookplate and ownership inscription dated 1914

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate.
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