GOLD HAIR.
A legend of Pornic. Pp. 16(last blank); f'cap. 8vo; no wrappers (as usual); unsewn and uncut; within a custom made red cloth portfolio, with typed paper title label (a trifle soiled) on the front cover and the bookplate of Warren Hiram Lowenhaupt on upper pastedown of portfolio; a little light browning, outer sheet slightly split at central fold; London, 1864[c.1890]. Wise (Robert Browning) 10; Todd 86f. *\lang2057 Browning's poem was originally printed in The Atlantic Monthly in May, 1864, thirty years before the first mention of this pamphlet, by J. H. Slater, in Early Editions, (1894), [note p. 55]. Classed by Carter and Pollard as a probable forgery: 'the book's earliest discoverable provenance is the same as that of the large number of definitely proved forgeries. \lang2057 It conforms to the forger's formula in all respects, and its type is not in its favour. In these circumstances it cannot but be regarded with considerable suspicion'. According to Carter & Pollard, copies of Gold Hair are found only 'occasionally in plain wrappers; the large majority of surviving copies are merely folded, without wrappers' [Carter & Pollard (Enquiry), p. 181]. They add that 'Mr. Gorfin purchased nineteen copies from Mr. Wise on April 18 and 26, 1910, at \'a31 each.' \lang2057 Warren Hiram Lowenhaupt (1891-1962) was an American lawyer and book collector, curator of bookplates and research associate at Yale University Library. Item #156902
Price: $1,600.00