B29014
Shelfmark
Id1.5.12
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[Another copy:] Id1.5.13
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[Another copy:] Id1.5.14
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[Another copy:] Id1.5.15(01)
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[Another copy:] Id1.5.15(02)
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[Another Copy:] Id1.5.15(03)
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[Another copy:] Id1.5.16(01)
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[Another copy:] Id1.5.16(02)
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[Another copy:] Id1.5.17
Author
Browning, Robert
Title
Sordello /, by Robert Browning.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London :, Edward Moxon, Dover Street,, MDCCCXL [1840]
Physical description
[4], 254, [2], 16 p. ;, 18 cm.
Note
With a half-title.
Note
[Id1.5.13, Id1.5.14] Nine final advertisement leaves.
Note
[Id1.5.15(01), Id1.5.15(02), Id1.5.15(03), Id1.5.16(01), Id1.5.16(02)] Final advertisement leaf.
Note
[Id1.5.13, Id1.5.14] Publisher's dark grey paper boards with printed title label on spine ; as referenced by Carter, 1932 and 1938 - binding variant 'A'.
Note
[Id1.5.15(01), Id1.5.16(01)] Publisher's purple diaper cloth with printed title label on spine ; as referenced by Carter, 1932 and 1938 - binding variant 'C'.
Note
[Id1.5.15(02), Id1.5.16(02)] Publisher's green ribbed cloth with blind stamped borders on boards and lettering stamped in gold on spine ; as referenced in Carter, 1932 - binding variant 'D'.
Note
[Id1.5.15(03)] Publisher's green sand-grain cloth with printed title label on spine ; referenced in Carter, 1938.
Provenance
[Id1.5.12, Id1.5.13, Id1.5.14, Id1.5.15(01), Id1.5.15(02), Id1.5.15(03), Id1.5.16(01), Id1.5.16(02), Id1.5.17] Bookplate of the Michael Meredith Browning Collection.
Provenance
[Id1.5.12] Purchased by Michael Meredith from Sotheby's sale in 1999.
Provenance
[Id1.5.12] Ms. inscription: "W. A. Dow Esq., from his friend, R[obert]. B[rowning]."
Provenance
[Id1.5.13] Purchased by Michael Meredith from Phillips Auctioneers in 1995.
Provenance
[Id1.5.13] Ms. inscription: "Eliot Warburton Esq., from R[obert]. B[rowning].", with ms. ownership signature on front board.
Provenance
[Id1.5.14] Purchased by Michael Meredith from Sotheran's.
Provenance
[Id1.5.15(02)] Bookplate of Arthur B. Spingarn.
Provenance
[Id1.5.15(03)] Purchased by Michael Meredith from C. R. Johnson in 1986.
Provenance
[Id1.5.16(01)] Purchased by Michael Meredith from Holleyman and Treacher.
Provenance
[Id1.5.16(01)] From the library of Windle Hall, Lancashire, with armorial bookplate.
Provenance
[Id1.5.16(02)] Purchased by Michael Meredith from Christie's in 1986.
Provenance
[Id1.5.16(02)] Ms. inscription: "Walter Alfred Hills, June 1865."
Provenance
[Id1.5.17] Purchased by Michael Meredith from Charles Cox in 2011.
Provenance
[Id1.5.17] Ms. inscription: "From [Cormell] Price to Sydney C. Cockerell, Nov. 1907."
Provenance
[Id1.5.17] Given by Edward Burne-Jones to Cormell Price (information from ms. note on front endpaper).
Provenance
[Id1.5.17] Ms. inscription: " Nov. 1858, Edward [Burne-]Jones, from Frederic G. Stephens [?]hoping to."
Binding
[Id1.5.12] 19th century brown morocco with gilt and blind tooled decoration on boards and spine, gilt lettering on spine, tooling on tur-ins, gilt edges, and marbled endpapers ; housed in 20th century red morocco and cloth box with gilt lettering and tooling, made by R. L. Day.
Binding
[Id1.5.13] Housed in 20th century black morocco and cloth box with gilt lettering and tooling, made by R. L. Day.
Binding
[Id1.5.14] Housed in 20th century yellow cloth box with gilt on brown leather lettering piece.
Binding
[Id1.5.15(01), Id1.5.15(02), Id1.5.15(03)] Housed together in 20th century black morocco and cloth box with gilt lettering and tooling ; bound by R. L. Day.
Binding
[Id1.5.16(01), Id1.5.16(02)] Housed together in 20th century black morocco and cloth box with gilt lettering and tooling ; bound by R. L. Day.
Binding
[Id1.5.17] Early 20th century brown morocco with gilt lettering on spine and gilt tooling on turn-ins ; bound by Katharine Adams (information from ms. notes).
Copy-specific note
[Id1.5.12, Id1.5.17] Lacking advertisement leaves.
Copy-specific note
[Id1.5.14, Id1.5.15(02), Id1.5.15(03), Id1.5.16(01)] Ms. bookseller's notes in pencil.
Copy-specific note
[Id1.5.15(02)] Blind stamp: "R."
Copy-specific note
[Id1.5.15(02), Id1.5.16(02)] ?Both in Carter's variant binding 'D' but border pattern different from each other.
Copy-specific note
[Id1.5.16(02)] Ms. passages from the "Biographie universelle" copied onto front endpapers and preliminaries, with ms. annotations on pp. 1-2, [?]in Walter Alfred Hills hand.
Copy-specific note
[Id1.5.17] Ms. note on front endpaper about the provenance of this book, and on back pastedown about the binding of this book, in Sydney Cockerell's hand.
Added entry--name
Meredith, Michael, donor.
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moxon, publisher.
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Dow, W. A, former owner.
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Browning, Robert, inscriber.
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Day, R. L, binder.
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Warburton, Eliot, former owner.
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Spingarn, Arthur B., former owner.
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Hills, Walter Alfred, former owner.
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Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, former owner.
Added entry--name
Price, Cormell, former owner.
Added entry--name
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, former owner.
Added entry--name
Stephens, Frederic George, inscriber.
Added entry--name
Adams, Katharine, binder.
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Cox, Charles, bookseller.
Added entry--name
Sotheby's, bookseller.
Added entry--name
Henry Sotheran Ltd, bookseller.
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C.R. Johnson, bookseller.
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Holleyman & Treacher Ltd, bookseller.
Added entry--name
Christie, Manson & Woods, bookseller.
Added entry--name
Phillips Son & Neale, bookseller.
Added entry--place
England, London.
Additional copy
[Another copy:] Id1.5.13
Additional copy
[Another copy:] Id1.5.14
Additional copy
[Another copy:] Id1.5.15(01)
Additional copy
[Another copy:] Id1.5.15(02)
Additional copy
[Another Copy:] Id1.5.15(03)
Additional copy
[Another copy:] Id1.5.16(01)
Additional copy
[Another copy:] Id1.5.16(02)
Additional copy
[Another copy:] Id1.5.17
B29014
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