Sonnets from the Portuguese
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Illustrated by Valenti Angelo; Introduction by Louis Untermeyer
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- very good
- Hardcover
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- Condition
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About This Item
E-219: Limited Editions Club. Very Good. 1949. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Limited Editions Club, New York, 1949. 44 pages. Illustrated with beautiful decorated initial letters to each sonnet. Number 536 of a limited edition of 1500 copies. Signed by illustrator Valenti Angelo on the colophon page. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a prolific writer and reviewer in the Victorian period, and in her lifetime, her reputation as a poet was at least as great as that of her husband, poet Robert Browning. Some of her poetry has been noted in recent years for strong feminist themes, but the poems for which Elizabeth Barrett Browning is undoubtedly best know are Sonnets from the Portuguese. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 44 pages; Signed by Illustrator .
Synopsis
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets to the Portuguese are widely considered among the greatest cycle of sonnets in the English language. This collection of love poems was written between 1845-46 to fellow poet and her soon-to-be husband, Robert Browning . Originally, Browning had no intention of publishing the poetry owing to its deeply personal subject matter, but her husband convinced her to publish them in the 1850 edition of her Poems . Originally, however, she was reportedly to have called the collection Sonnets from the Bosnian but was convinced to change the title to Sonnets from the Portuguese , also on her husband's suggestion. The Sonnets (as they are often called) are interesting as far as their collectibility is concerned. They were not originally published as a standalone work, but in Barrett's first compilation of poetry, Poems . First published in 1844, it did not contain the Sonnets initially. This distinction was to belong in fact to the second edition of 1850, published in 2 octavo volumes by Chapman and Hall in dark blue gilt cloth, making the second edition of Poems more valuable and collectible than the first edition. This is, of course, a rarity in the world of book collecting. The first state contains the address for the publisher on the title page as 186, Strand, rather than 193, Piccaddilly. The second edition of Poems (containing Sonnets from the Portuguese) is rather uncommon, but will typically fetch $5,000 or more, depending on condition.
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- Last Exit Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 62253
- Title
- Sonnets from the Portuguese
- Author
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Illustrated by Valenti Angelo; Introduction by Louis Untermeyer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- Limited Editions Club
- Place of Publication
- E-219
- Date Published
- 1949
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