Poems / - by Elizabeth Barrett Browning; with an introduction by Alice Meynell.
Date
1906.
Collection
Code
111543
Catalogue link
First printed september 1902; 3rd printing--verso of half-title.
Forest green cloth boards. Design in gilt (on front cover and spine only): facing songbirds touching a reniform or "peacock's crest" shape overlaid with a candelabrum of seven stems: in the centre a rose flanked by stems bearing seven pointed leaves; two low stems bearing roses over the reniform shape itself, the outermost pair of stems high and bearing seven pointed leaves at the outer side of the birds; the background scattered with inverted teardrops. On the spine, author or title architectural sansserif capitals punctuated with inverted teardrops, at top and bottom a motif of three roses over an inwardly bowed frame and a stylised outline heart. Unsigned (LO/C32). The first poetry series design on cloth. Second form. Grey-green endpapers signed TM, with a design of entwined stems and a scatter of roses both on the stems and on the background (LO/C32). Bookseller's label on front pastedown: Leach & Son, Wisbech LO/C32. From the collection of David Rodger LO/C32. Owner's inscription on endpaper: "Mildred A. Vedes, 12/11/07" LO/C32. xi, 278 pages, frontispiece (portrait) ; 16cm.
Related objects
-
The young chemists / - by W. Furneaux. -
English literary criticism / - with an introduction by C. E. Vaughan. -
Animal and plant life : - first part / - by the Rev. Theodore Wood. -
The concise English dictionary, literary, scientific and technical : - with pronouncing lists of proper names and foreign words and phrases--key to names in mythology and fiction--and other valuable appendices--also a supplement of words of recent occurence / - by Charles Annandale. -
Little Lady Clare / - by Evelyn Everett-Green; illustrated by Robert Fowler. -
Modern power generators : - steam, electric and internal-combustion, and their application to present-day requirements / - Prepared under the editorship of James Weir French. - In 2 volumes. -
Great expectations : - and other stories / - by Charles Dickens; with frontispiece and illustrations by H. M. Brock. - vol. XIV. -
A very odd girl, or, Life at the gabled farm / - by Annie E. Armstrong; illustrated by S. T. Dadd. -
Scenes of clerical life / - by George Eliot; illustrated by Chris. Hammond, with an introduction by William Keith Leask. -
Banshee Castle / - by Rosa Mulholland; with twelve full-page illustrations by John H. Bacon. -
The world of ice, or, The whaling cruise of "The dolphin" and the adventures of her crew in the polar regions / - by R. M. Ballantyne. -
The call of the homeland : - a collection of English verse / - selected and arranged by R. P. Scott and Kath: T. Wallas. - Book One. -
A soldier's son : - the story of a boy who succeeded ; illustrated / - by Annette Lyster. -
The universe, Or, The infinitely great and the infinitely little / - by F. A. Pouchet; revised and edited by J. R. Ainsworth Davis. -
The old curiosity shop / - by Charles Dickens; with illustrations by H. M. Brock. - One of a 16 volume set. -
Waverley, Or, 'Tis sixty years since / - by Sir Walter Scott.