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The seraphim, and other poems: PB 75-2005

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

The seraphim, and other poems

Maker(s)

Author: Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Annotator: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
Publisher: Saunders and Otley
Printer: Samuel Bentley

Categories

Description

"By Elizabeth B. Barrett"

There are two impressions known to exist. First impression: line 1 on p. [ii] reads "LONDON :"; leaves A5,6 both signed "A5". Second impression: line 1 on p. [ii] reads "LONDON:"; only leaf A5 signed; p. 214, line 15 has uneven left margin, with "Towards the sea" reset. Cf. Barnes: E. B. Browning.

Ms note by Sydney C. Cockerell dated Cambridge Feb 4 1902: "This is one of the books that the brothers D. G. Rossetti and W. M. Rossetti owned jointly in their early manhood. The name above [Rossetti] is the autograph of D. G. Rossetti, who also made the pencil corrections on pp. 74, 177, 194, 257, 260" -- front endpage.

Laid in: typed passage from W. M. Rossetti's Reminiscences concerning books merely signed "Rossetti".

Xxi, 360 p ; 20 cm.

Place(s) associated

  • London

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (2005-10) by Surtees, Virginia

Dating

Production date: AD 1838

People, subjects and objects depicted

Components of the work

Support composed of paper

Materials used in production

Graphite
Printing ink

Techniques used in production

Handwriting
Printing

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 75-2005
Primary reference Number: 125056
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 Last processed: Wednesday 3 January 2024

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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