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Sonnets from the Portuguese
London: The Folio Society, 1962. Item #04667
Sonnets from the Portuguese
BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett. Sonnets from the Portuguese. Introduction by Dorothy Hewlett. Decorations by Reynolds Stone. London: The Folio Society, 1962.
Octavo ( 7 7/8 x 5 1/8 inches; 200 x 130 mm.). xiv, [2], 44, [4, index] pp.
Publisher's embroidered silk in a floral design over boards. Pale green end-papers. A fine copy in the original gold card slipcase with paper label on spine.
Sonnets from the Portuguese, written ca. 1845-1846 and first published in 1850, is a collection of 44 love sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1881). The poems largely chronicle the period leading up to her 1846 marriage to Robert Browning. The collection was acclaimed and popular in the poet's lifetime and it remains equally so today.
Price: $100.00