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Browning, Robert
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Description
- Browning, Robert
- The Agamemnon of Aeschylus. London: Smith, Elder, 1877.
- Paper, ink, leather
8vo (172 x 106 mm). Front hinge weak. Original beveled green cloth stamped in black and gilt; minor rubbing to extremities.
Provenance
Simon Norwell-Smith (bookplate).
Catalogue Note
first edition, presentation copy, "Thomas Linton, Esq. in grateful remembrance of the visit, Nov. 20, '77, from his cordially ever Robert Browning. Nov. 22, '77." Browning's very literal translation of this classic is seen as an incredibly idiosyncratic "transcription" and is thought to have inspired Houseman's "Fragment of a Greek Tragedy." A work that is strangely uncommon at auction.