Some Poems by Robert Browning.
by ERAGNY PRESS. Browning, Robert
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
The Brook, Hammersmith.: Eragny Press., 1904.. Full dark chocolate crushed morocco by Zaehnsdorf with signature gilt and dated 1905, boards ruled in gilt to surround a wide inset border of green morocco with gilt and red floral and gilt foliate tools, banded spine in six compartments with inlaid sections of green morocco and gilt and red floral tools and gilt title, trun-in swith gilt decorative border with foliate decor, thick green doublures and endpapers, board edges ruled in gilt, original blue paper-backed decorative 'Wild Rose' printed paper boards with gilt title preserved, a.e.g., later brown cloth box with gilt title to spine.. 8vo. (210 x 138 mm).. Leaf with title verso, leaf with wood-engraved colour frontispiece ('Women and Roses') with colour border and Browning's verse on following leaves with large decorative 9-line initial in red for each poem (10 in total), leaf with 'Contents' verso, leaf with colophon and final leaf with justification; printed text in red and black throughout, the frontispiece and initials by Lucien Pissarro and engraved on wood by Esther Pissarro. The Eragny Press edition of Browning in a beautiful binding by Zaehnsdorf.From the edition limited to 209 copies, with this one of 200 on paper.This copy with an inscription in sepia ink (badly faded and only partially legible) beneath the frontispiece: 'I bought this for myself ... M. M. ... 1905'.This beautiful edition caused the Pissarros much trouble: with the paper, printing, bindings and finally, with sales. Lane, selling the edition in America, thought it expensive but there, at least, it did well and he took 50 copies.'In March 1904. Lucien and Esther were getting ready to begin the Browning. Robert Steele selected the poems ... '. (Marcella Genz).[Genz EP20].
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- Bookseller
- Sims Reed Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 48478
- Title
- Some Poems by Robert Browning.
- Author
- ERAGNY PRESS. Browning, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Full dark chocolate crushed morocco by Zaehnsdorf with signature gilt and dated 1905, boards ruled in gilt to surround a wide in
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Eragny Press.
- Place of Publication
- The Brook, Hammersmith.
- Date Published
- 1904.
- Pages
- [35 leaves including frontis. on inserted leaf; pp. 64, (i), (i), (i)].
- Size
- 8vo. (210 x 138 mm).
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