Sonnets from the Portuguese by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett - 1945

Jamaica, NY: Minia Press, 1945. (181)pp. Forty-four sonnets composed during the author's twenty-month correspondence with fellow poet Robert Browning that preceded the two writers' marriage. Many of the sonnets reportedly continue themes and sentiments articulated in the poet's courtship letters. Bound in red cloth boards with gilt lettering and heart designs to spine and gilt illustration to cover depicting a pair of hands raised to the sun as though in supplication. Spine of book a touch faded, with some wear to head and tail. (Bradbury, p. 150). (2 3/8 by 1 13/4; 60x45mm).