Sonnets From the Portuguese
by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
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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Sonnets from the Portuguese; to which is prefaced a "Little Journey" to the home of the author, written by Elbert Hubbard
by BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett (HUBBARD, Elbert)
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- 1898
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East Aurora: Roycroft, 1898. Limited. hardcover. fine. Initial letters in red & blue. 68 pp., Small folio, re-bound full black morocco letter in gilt. East Aurora: Roycroft Press, (1898). Limited Edition. Fine.<br/> <br/> No. 190 of 450 copies, signed by Elbert Hubbard.<br/> <br/> Item Price
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Sonnets from the Portuguese (The Riccardi Press Booklets Series)
by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
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- First Edition
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- 1914
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- Hardcover
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Seattle, Washington, USA
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[The Medici Society / Philip Lee Warner], 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Wear to spine (chiefly to midsection; tears & fraying); slight wear to extremities (chiefly to edges); slight rubbing and browning to covers (cloth/boards; chiefly to edges); slight bumping to corners; previous owner's ink inscription on front free endpaper, and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Sonnets From the Portuguese
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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- 1st Edition
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- 1900
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- Soft cover
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London, GBR
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Portland, Maine: Thomas B Mosher, 1900. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Decorated blue grey wraps over a slime volume of pp. 46. Slight shelf wear; faded previous owner's name to front; previous owner's name prelim. A thoroughly charming little volume.
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Sonnets from the Portuguese
by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
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Selkirk, New York, USA
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London: Leopold B. Hill. Very Good; Boards rubbed, owner name on front pastedown endpaper.. N.D.. Hardcover. Miniature Birdsall binding of Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese. Circa 1910-1920. Halfbound morocco with brown cloth sides. Gilt decoration on front and rear boards and sides. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Measures 3.75 x 2.5 inches. "Bound by Birdsall, Northampton and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Sonnets from the Portuguese
by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
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The Woodlands, Texas, USA
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New York: Thomas Y. Crowell. Good+. Softcover. No date given, we believe circa 1900. "c. 1907" written in pencil on full title page. Bound in flexible suede. Gold gilt and head edge. Purple floral endpapers. Ships same or next business day. Gift inscription on first blank page, this book appears to have been owned by the Wynne… Read more about this item Item Price
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Sonnets from the Portuguese.
by Browning Barrett, Elizabeth
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- 1903
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Tübingen, DEU
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1903. Third edition. Maine, Thomas B. Moshe, 1903. 12°. 64 pages. Contemporary full morocco. Top edge gilt, gilt title on spine (vanished) and gilt title decoration on the cover. The spine and capital partly worn, otherwise good. The most famous work by the English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browing (1806-1861) in a lovely morrocco binding. "To come and touch my… Read more about this item Item Price
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Sonnets From the Portuguese (The Pocket Classics)
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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- Special Edition
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- 1930
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- Hardcover
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WINFIELD, Kansas, USA
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Philadelphia, PA: David McKay Company, 1930 David McKay Company, Washington Square, Philadelphia, PA. Circa 1930, Undated. Hardcover. The Pocket Classics Series by McKay. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. DJ: Near Fine; thin cellophane wrapper with only a small tear at the front lower tip. Slipcase; Very Good; tweed paper over boards with paste-on title; slight suntanning… Read more about this item Item Price
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Sonnets from the Portuguese (5th Mosher Edition with Rare Glassine Wrapper)
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Author); Edmund Gosse (Preface)
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- Fifth Edition
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- 1910
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- Softcover with Dust Jacket & Glassine Wrapper
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Hendersonville, North Carolina, USA
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Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher; Printed by Smith and Sale, 1910. Fifth Edition. Softcover with Dust Jacket & Glassine Wrapper. Near Fine. 5.75" x 3" x 0.5. FIFTH MOSHER EDITION, 1910. WITH RARE GLASSINE WRAPPER. Softcover. Very small, the binding is a light textured blue with red lettering and a Celtic-type design on the cover in red and… Read more about this item Item Price
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SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE
by BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT.
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- None
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- Limited Edition by this publisher.
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- 1901
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- Full leather on Rigid boards
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Johannesburg, ZAF
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Small scuffs on cnrs & edges; tail frittered; end papers corrugated. 1 of 300 copies on handmade Whatman paper. Decorated silk end papers. Embossed lettraset title on the spine not original, can be removed. Decorative title p (in photo image); 44 sonnets each with illuminated first capital letter. Exceedingly RARE in this form. Top edge gilt, faded, remaining block edges… Read more about this item Item Price
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Sonnets From The Portuguese [full Green Leather]
by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
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- N.D.
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VINELAND, New Jersey, USA
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Peter Pauper Press. Good+ with no dust jacket. N.D.. Color; 12 mo; Lethe scuffed, contents unmaked and fine. Green satin end papers, . Item Price
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SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE
by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
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- 1906
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Paris, Tennessee, USA
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Venice: S. Rosen, 1906. Fine. Miniature book (2 9/16" x 2"). 104p. Illustrated with portrait frontispiece and a plate of the author's tomb. Printed in red and black. Bound in buff boards printed in red and black and with a leather cord tie. Welsh 1481. Item Price
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Sonnets From The Portuguese.
by BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett.
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- 1914
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London, GBR
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London: printed by the Riccardi Press and published for the Medici Society, Ltd by Philip Lee Warner,, 1914. Original Sangorski & Sutcliffe binding First Riccardi Press edition, number 151 of 350 numbered copies specially bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, from an edition of 1,000 copies on handmade Riccardi Paper; there were also 12 copies on vellum. This is a… Read more about this item Item Price
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Sonnets from the Portuguese
by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
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- Limited
- Published
- 1896
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Diss, Norfolk, GBR
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Boston: Copeland and Day, 1896. Hardback, plain uncovered boards, lacks a spine-strip. 19.5 x 15cm. 51pp. Ornamental designs by Bertram Grosvenor Gardner. One of an edition of 750 copies. Rather unprepossing but contents clean.. Limited. Hard Cover. Good. Item Price
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Sonnets from the Portuguese
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Hendersonville, North Carolina, USA
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New York : Thomas Y. Crowell Company. Hardcover. Very Good . Willy Pogany. Hardcover. Bound in orange cloth. Cover has gilt rose illustration an lettering. Gilt lettering on spine. Frontispiece. Color and black and white illustrations by Willy Pogany. 96 pages.<br><br>CONDITION: Ex-libris. Previous owners book plate on front paste down. .Cover has light wear. Spine is sunned. Pages… Read more about this item Item Price
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Sonnets from the Portuguese
by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
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Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, USA
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Barse & Hopkins, no date. Flexible Leather. Good. Good flexible leather wraps; edges smooth; light rubbing along edges. Binding tight; contents clean and unmarked. Some browning on green marbled endpapers; slight curl to boards; some chipping of leather and webbing showing at spine. 92pp. Circa 1910. Limited Edition. All items carefully packed to avoid damage from moisture and… Read more about this item Item Price
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SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: A Facsimile edition of the British Library Manuscript
by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett; edited by William S. Peterson
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- Fine
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- First edition thus
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- 1977
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- Hardcover
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- 9780517531785
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Rougemont, North Carolina, USA
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Barre, Massachusetts: Barre Publishing, 1977. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo., xx, (88) pp., illustrated with color portrait frontispiece and 44 b&w photographs. Light brown cloth with printed dw. A fine copy in fine dw. ************* The photographs are of the original manuscript, with photo on verso, and the printed text on recto.**********. Item Price
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Sonnets from the Portuguese
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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- 1948
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- Hardcover
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Berkeley, California, USA
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SGD 82.72
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The Limited Editions Club, 1948. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket. Valenti Angelo. #328/1500cc, signed by illustrator Valenti Angelo. Oversized. Includes prospectus. Spine sunned. In shelfworn slipcase. Item Price
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Sonnets from the Portuguese
by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
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Whitby, Ontario, CAN
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New York: Barse & Hopkins. Hardcover. Very Good. Elizabeth Ivins Jones. 12mo. Orig. quarter-cloth over decorative cob-webbed boards and purple moire endpapers, 92pp. Frontispiece. Light foxing. Bump to foot of spine, light wear to boards but otherwise very good. Item Price
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sonnets from the portuguese
by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
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- As new
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- fine
- Published
- 1980
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- Hardcover
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- 9780517309827
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Columbia, Missouri, USA
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Avenel Books, 1980. Hardcover. As new/fine. Fred A. Mayer. Foreword Elizabeth Congdon Kovanen. Avenel Books, c1980. black and white illustrations Fred A. Mayer. sm. 8vo. As new hardcover, fine d/j. Item Price
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Sonnets from the Portuguese
by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
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- Used - Very Good
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- Later Printing
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- 1933
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- Hardcover
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Beloit, Wisconsin, USA
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SGD 172.34
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Chicago: Monastery Hill Bindery, 1933. A handsome little book, #75 of 200 copies printed by the Broadside Press, Barrington; for the Century of Progress Exposition, presumably as a promotion for the bindery, which is still in business making fancy restaurant & hotel kit. Quarter turquoise morocco over turquoise paste-paper boards, gilt titling. Edges worn, corners frayed, spine hubs rubbed, couple… Read more about this item Item Price
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