The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett 1845–1846
Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xliv, 568, vii, 569-1119pp. Original illustrated paper-covered boards with gray and white lettering on spine, housed in a black slipcase with printed red label on spine. Violet endpapers. Frontispiece in both volumes. "Here we have not only both sides of the correspondence but contained within it, in the words of the two lovers themselves, both of them poets, one of the few love stories from real life that can compete in plot interest with the art of the fictioner... Its inherent interest is only partly that it is so unlike routine human experience; it lies rather in the fact that Browning and Miss Barrett reenact an archetypal myth." (Editor). Illustrated with two b/w reproductions of artwork and various facsimile reproductions of letters. Slipcase with light wear along edges, small chips and closed tear at top of spine. Bindings lightly sunned at spines. Previous owner's name inked to front free endpapers. Slipcase and bindings in overall good+, interiors in very good+ condition. g+ to vg+. Item #41309
Price: $75.00