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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 USD
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Description
- Sonnets. By E.B.B. Reading: [Not for Publication.] 1847. [c. 1893]
- Paper, ink, leather
8vo. half-title. Brown morocco, black and gilt-ruled borders on covers with stylized floral decoration in each corner. Bound by Riviere.
Provenance
H. Bradley Martin, Sotheby's New York, Dec 10, 1993, lot 145. (his bookplate on pastedown).
Literature
Barnes B2; Carter and Pollard 167, 361 (recording 36 copies)
Catalogue Note
the primal wise forgery. "Of this group [of suspected forgeries] it was the most important, both as literature and as a human document of wide sentimental appeal; it was by far the highest priced: and it was the most amply and authoritatively documented" (Carter and Pollard 6).