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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett POEMS London Chapman and Hall 1856

3 volumes. Fourth edition. Engraved portrait frontispiece in volume one. Small 8vo, three-quarter dark green morocco over marbled boards, richly and delicately gilt in panels within comparments of the spines separated by raised bands gilt, lettered in gilt in two compartments, edges of morocco gilt ruled, marbled endleaves, t.e.g. [xii], 314; viii, 303; vii, 310 pp. A fine set, beautifully preserved and very handsome indeed.

A FINE AND VERY HANDSOME SET OF THIS ELUSIVE WORK AND A WONDERFUL EARLY COLLECTION BY THIS EXQUISITE POET. Rarely encountered in this fine condition. Browning's poetry was already critically and publically accepted while she was alive; for example, she was considered Wordsworth's successor as poet laureate upon his death. However, Browning's more advanced ideas may appeal to readers of this generation. Browning was sympathetic to the ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft, politically progressive in her views and in the literary realm, transformed poetic style and content. Thus, her work is by no means a mere curiosity but rather representative of the highest literary and intellectual achievements.

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