A BROWNING LIBRARY.
A catalogue of printed books, manuscripts and autograph letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning collected by Thomas James Wise. Pp. xxxii+128(last colophon), frontispiece portrait with tissue guard, plus 110 plates, several facsimiles in text, 3 decorative headpieces, tailpiece; cr. 4to; red cloth over bevelled boards, lettered and decorated in gilt, boards a trifle marked, with a couple of tiny edge bruises, the spine and part of lower board slightly faded; t.e.g., others uncut and very occasionally partly unopened; blind ownership stamp of Randolph Hughes on upper free endpaper, the endpapers lightly offset, hinges tender at a couple of points, scattered foxing; printed for private circulation only, London, 1929. First edition, limited to 190 copies, this being one of 160 printed on antique paper. [30 copies on English hand-made paper were also issued]. Todd 83b. *Randolph William Hughes (1889-1955) was an Australian university lecturer and literary critic who spent the later years of his life preparing editions of the work of Swinburne and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Item #157059
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