Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1900. Edited by Horace E. Scudder. Introduction by Harriet Waters Preston. Cambridge edition. 548 pp. Hardcover.
A buying collection of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's works, including her masterpiece Aurora Leigh, an epic novel-poem featuring two heroines - Aurora Leigh and Marian Erle. This volume also includes a biographical sketch of Browning by Harriet Waters Preston, as well as Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese - one of the most romantic collections of English language poetry. Together, the forty-four poems chronicle the author's relationship with poet Robert Browning, whom she was courting at the time, and include the well known Sonnet 43, which begins: "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." She originally thought these poems to be too private to publish, but ultimately did so at the behest of her husband.
Half red morocco (goat) leather and brown marbled boards, spine with five raised bands and decoratively tooled in gilt, board ruled in gilt, marbled endpapers. Very good, spine toned, edges and boards a bit rubbed, 1912 ownership inscription on a front free endpaper.
Product code: The Complete Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett buying Browning (1900) - Finely Bound