Sales catalogue 414: Maggs Bros

Date:
1921
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/11
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 414: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    235 236 237 239 240 241 Sordello. FIRST EDITION. F’cap. 8vo, ovzginal boards, uncut. London, Moxon, 1840. £3 10s Strafford: an Historical Tragedy. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, az uncut copy, bound by Riviere in full morocco gilt, top edges gilt, with the original printed label bound in. London, 1837. £6 18s Excerpts from Magazines. Robert Browning. In Memoriam, by Edmund Gosse. 6 pp. Early Writings of Robert Browning. 9 pp., wth 2 portraits. Impressions of Browning and his Art. By Stopford A. Brooke. 2 portraits. 74 pp. Recent Literature. Referrmg to Browning’s ‘‘ Pacchiarotto’’ and ‘‘ The Agamemnon of Aischylus.”’ ‘By Henry Morley. 17 pp. The Four, 10s Review of Browning’s Poetry, entitled ‘“* Wordsworth’s Successor,’’ ex- tracted from ‘‘ Cross Lights,’’ by H. B. Simpson. Post 8vo. (1890.) = 5S Forman (Alfred). At Browning’s Crave, Westminster Abbey, December 31st, 1889. Additional Sonnet to the Fifty Privately Printed in 1886. Post 8vo, 8 pp., uwzbound. London, Privately Printed, 1899. £2 2s Furnivall (F. ].). A Bibliography of Rebert Browning, from 1833 to 1881. SECOND EDITION, enlarged, including Mr. Nettleship’s Classification of Browning’s Poems. 8vo, oviginal wrappers, uncut. London, The Browning Society, 1882. £1 6s Presentation copy, with F. J. Furnivall’s inscription, signed with initials. ONLY 25 COPIES PRINTED. The Browning Society: by Robert Browning. Being Letters from Robert Browning to James Dykes Campbell. Small 4to, 15 pp., and the Original printed cover. London, Printed for Private Distribution, 1917. £7 15s Only 25 copies issued, each numbered and signed by the Editor, Mr. Clement Shorter. The Browning Society was formed in 1881 by Dr. Furnivall and a few other enthusiastics in order to interpret the poetry of Robert Browning. Tihe idea was suggested to the Poet, who at first treated the project as a joke. James Dykes Campbell was the second Secretary of the Society.
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