Florence in the Poetry of the Brownings: Being a Selection of the Poems of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning Which Have to do with the History, the Scenery and the Art of Florence
by McMahan, Anna Benneson & Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
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About This Item
Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co. Used - Very Good. 1904. First Edition. hardcover. Cloth with paper covered spine, with gilt stamped lettering and decoration. Octavo. 230 pp. Illustrated. From a limited printing of 250 copies. Top edge gilt. Some shelf wear to boards, scuffing to spine. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown, previous owner's inscription to half-title page. Edges of text block uneven and somewhat worn. Pages toned but otherwise very sound. Altogether a copy in Very Good condition. Very Good. (Subject: Poetry).
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- Powell's Bookstores Chicago (US)
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- C65067
- Title
- Florence in the Poetry of the Brownings: Being a Selection of the Poems of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning Which Have to do with the History, the Scenery and the Art of Florence
- Author
- McMahan, Anna Benneson & Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co
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