Prometheus Bound And Other Poems, Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1851 First Edition
$700.00
New York: C.S. Francis & Co; Boston: J.H. Francis, 1851. vi, [vii-viii], [9]-234, [6 ad] pp. 8vo. Publisher's brown cloth ruled and decorated in blind, spine lettered in gilt, yellow endpapers. Small dampstain on lower front board Some bumping to lower spine, and chipping to head..Previous owner's (circulating library) bookplate on ffep. 8vo. First American edition of Sonnets from the Portuguese. First American edition of Sonnets from the Portuguese, among the finest love songs in English, first published in London the year before; it is also the first American edition of Casa Guidi Windows. Though Fields brought out an edition of E.B.B.'s poems the year before, it did not include either.
This is a very rare edition. Looks to be only a few copies existing online.
Please feel free to contact us with any questions.
Good condition. Binding is loose, but still secure. Damp stain on lower cover. Previous owner's bookplate on inside ffep. No interior markings. Publisher's brown cloth ruled and decorated in blind, spine lettered in gilt, yellow endpapers.
New York: C.S. Francis & Co; Boston: J.H. Francis, 1851. vi, [vii-viii], [9]-234, [6 ad] pp. 8vo. Publisher's brown cloth ruled and decorated in blind, spine lettered in gilt, yellow endpapers. Small dampstain on lower front board Some bumping to lower spine, and chipping to head..Previous owner's (circulating library) bookplate on ffep. 8vo. First American edition of Sonnets from the Portuguese. First American edition of Sonnets from the Portuguese, among the finest love songs in English, first published in London the year before; it is also the first American edition of Casa Guidi Windows. Though Fields brought out an edition of E.B.B.'s poems the year before, it did not include either.
This is a very rare edition. Looks to be only a few copies existing online.
Please feel free to contact us with any questions.
Good condition. Binding is loose, but still secure. Damp stain on lower cover. Previous owner's bookplate on inside ffep. No interior markings. Publisher's brown cloth ruled and decorated in blind, spine lettered in gilt, yellow endpapers.
New York: C.S. Francis & Co; Boston: J.H. Francis, 1851. vi, [vii-viii], [9]-234, [6 ad] pp. 8vo. Publisher's brown cloth ruled and decorated in blind, spine lettered in gilt, yellow endpapers. Small dampstain on lower front board Some bumping to lower spine, and chipping to head..Previous owner's (circulating library) bookplate on ffep. 8vo. First American edition of Sonnets from the Portuguese. First American edition of Sonnets from the Portuguese, among the finest love songs in English, first published in London the year before; it is also the first American edition of Casa Guidi Windows. Though Fields brought out an edition of E.B.B.'s poems the year before, it did not include either.
This is a very rare edition. Looks to be only a few copies existing online.
Please feel free to contact us with any questions.
Good condition. Binding is loose, but still secure. Damp stain on lower cover. Previous owner's bookplate on inside ffep. No interior markings. Publisher's brown cloth ruled and decorated in blind, spine lettered in gilt, yellow endpapers.