BIB_ID
130637
Accession number
MA 933.3-28
Creator
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
Display Date
ca. 1845-50.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, 1917.
Description
26 items (27 p., unbound) ; 15.8 x 10.2 cm (items 3-18) and 18 x 11.3 cm (items 19-28)
Notes
Each sheet bears an embossed circle in upper left corner with the words "Batin Post" around a crown.
Formerly bound with MA 933.1, a portrait of Barrett Browning, and MA 933.2, the autograph manuscript of Catarina to Camoens.
Formerly housed in a binding by Dawson & Lewis in green morocco, lettered in gilt on both covers: "Mrs. Browning / Sonnets / from the Portuguese / and / Catarina to Camoens / 'The loveliest sonnets / in the English language." Manuscripts have been removed but the binding has been retained.
High reserve.
Sonnets 27-28 (numbered 28-29 in this manuscript) are written on a single sheet, one on recto and the other on verso.
Sonnets numbered 19-29 in this manuscript were published as sonnets 18-28 in the 1850 edition.
This manuscript does not include a draft of sonnet 17, which begins "My poet, thou canst touch on all the notes."
Formerly bound with MA 933.1, a portrait of Barrett Browning, and MA 933.2, the autograph manuscript of Catarina to Camoens.
Formerly housed in a binding by Dawson & Lewis in green morocco, lettered in gilt on both covers: "Mrs. Browning / Sonnets / from the Portuguese / and / Catarina to Camoens / 'The loveliest sonnets / in the English language." Manuscripts have been removed but the binding has been retained.
High reserve.
Sonnets 27-28 (numbered 28-29 in this manuscript) are written on a single sheet, one on recto and the other on verso.
Sonnets numbered 19-29 in this manuscript were published as sonnets 18-28 in the 1850 edition.
This manuscript does not include a draft of sonnet 17, which begins "My poet, thou canst touch on all the notes."
Provenance
Notes on provenance by Belle Greene, not verified: Browning sale, London, May 1913, item 153; Sotheby's London, 2 May 1913, item 620, purchased by Sabin; purchased by J. P. Morgan Jr. from Dodd, Mead & Co. on 20 January 1917.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (33.6 cm)
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