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The Poetical Works of Robert Browning (Four Volumes)
by Browning, Robert
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Granville, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1889. First edition. Rare 1889 edition. Four volume set. Published NY: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1889. 12mo., 4 3/4" x 6 1/2", 292, 319, 326, 287pp., frontis portrait in volume one. Three quarter burgundy cloth with gilt spine titles and designs and floral patterned paper over boards, tope edge gilting, laid endpapers. Published in the year of Browning's death and precedes the more common 1890 edition. An elegant set in pristine condition. Very Fine.. 1st. Hard. Very Fine/No Jacket. 12mo.
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- Bookseller
- The Wild Muse
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009453
- Title
- The Poetical Works of Robert Browning (Four Volumes)
- Author
- Browning, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Frederick A. Stokes Company
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1889
- Size
- 12mo
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry; Literary & Modern First Editions;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
The Wild Muse
Returnable within 10 days.
About the Seller
The Wild Muse
Biblio member since 2005
Granville, New York
About The Wild Muse
Literary and modern first editions. Established 1985. Mail order only.
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- Fine
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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