Mrs. Sutherland Orr; Frederic G. Kenyon
Life and Letters of Robert Browning
London, Smith, Elder & Co. 1908 . Leather. A new edition of this biographical work on famed poet Robert Browning, in a smart, prize leather binding. A new edition, revised and in part rewritten by Frederic G. Kenyon. First published in 1891. Bound in a smart, half calf prize winner binding, with four raised bands and gilt decoration to the spine and a gilt motif to the front cover. This biographical work covers the life and works of popular poet Robert Browning. The new additions to this edition include closer detail on Robert and Elizabeth Barrett-Browning's courtship and marriage, as well as details of their letter correspondence. With two portraits of Robert Browning, including a frontispiece. An ink inscription awarding the book to Margaret Agatha Lawson Lumby, from Grassendale School, dated July 1909. In a smart, half calf prize winner binding, with a gilt motif to the front cover. Externally, smart, with light rubbing to the extremities and a little to the joints. The odd mark to the cloth. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean throughout. Ink inscription dated 1909 to the first blank. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed .
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