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Lot 21
  • 21

Browning, Robert

Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 USD
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Description

  • Pacchiarotto and How He Worked in Distemper. London: Smith , Elder & Co., 1876.
  • Paper, ink, leather
8vo (170 x 105 mm). Original brown cloth stamped in black and gilt; partially unopened, very fine. Half-morocco case.

first edition, presentation copy to his beloved, "Fanny Haworth from her old & affectionate friend RB. July 18 '76."

Provenance

Marjorie Wiggin Prescott (Sale, Christie's, February 6, 1981, lot 33). 

Literature

Wise 19