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Presumed first edition, (with no subsequent information to copyright page, such as seen on other issues of the series.) Hard cover, 8vo, in an unsigned contemporary deluxe binding of full tree calf, the boards ruled with a band of opposing triangular forms in gilt, the spine with five raised bands, compartments with neoclassical motifs of central floral vignettes, matching scrolled corner decorations, two title labels laid on in red and outlined by a shark tooth pattern. All edges gilt, marbled end papers, gilt rolled turn-ins. Shilling rolled board edges and endcaps. Tissue guarded frontispiece portrait of the English Victorian Poet, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) with her facsimile signature. Title page illustrated with engraving of the Casa Guidi, Florence, home of the poet and her husband poet Robert Browning after their marriage in 1846. xviii, 548pp. Complete in one volume. **CONDITION: Near Fine with the merest of rubbing to tips and bottom edge shelfwear. Gilt remains bright. Red silk bookmark is intact. Pages are unworn and un-foxed. Book is sound, with no markings. A beautiful copy, with editor's biographical sketch and brief introductory annotations to the poems, including some of EBB's best-loved verses: Aurora Leigh, Casa Guidi Windows, The Cry of the Children, Rhyme of the Duchess May, Juvenalia, Poems before Congress, Last Poems, Ode on a Portrait of Wordsworth by B.R. Haydon, Prometheus Bound, Psyche and Venus, Seraphim and Other Poems, Sonnets from the Portuguese and a number of the poet's translations. The Appendix also includes the explicatory "Notes and Illustrations." Watson 436. (AMJ)
Ref: POEMEW 9712
$465.00