Item Detail
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164
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Browning, Robert
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Sordello
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8vo
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elaborately bound in full red morocco, t.e.g. (original drab paper wrappers and label preserved
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London
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1840
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First Edition
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[4], 253 p.
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17 cm.
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VAULT 821.83 So68m 1840
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Presentation copy: "Thomas Carlyle from R.B." A fine association item, thus linking two of the great Victorians. They met when "Paracelsus" was published and remained firm friends. One wonders if Carlyle understood "Sordello", once described by Browning to Edmund Gosse as "entirely unintelligible."