Author: CURLE, RICHARD (EDITOR)
Title: Robert Browning and Julia Wedgwood: A Broken Friendship As Revealed by Their Letters
Description: New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. A first edition of this collection of letters between the noted English poet and playwright Robert Browning (1812-1889) and Julia Wedgwood (1833-1913), the brilliant English novelist, literary critic and historian. The two maintained their friendship though these letters for many years, but it waned about 1870, possibly due to society's not understanding a platonic friendship between a man and a woman. Edited and with an introduction by Richard Curle. with a frontis tissue-guarded portrait of Ms. Wedgwood, and other illustrations. Facsimiles of letters by each are tipped in. --- In tan cloth with cameos of both Browning and Wedgwood in blind to cover; titling in gilt to spine. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- With prior owner's signature to front free endpaper and discreet Chicago bookseller label to rear paste-down, otherwise a clean, tightly-bound, sound copy.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xxiii, 199 pages. Very Good+ with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir >>Writers, Writing & Literary Criticism
Title: Robert Browning and Julia Wedgwood: A Broken Friendship As Revealed by Their Letters
Description: New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. A first edition of this collection of letters between the noted English poet and playwright Robert Browning (1812-1889) and Julia Wedgwood (1833-1913), the brilliant English novelist, literary critic and historian. The two maintained their friendship though these letters for many years, but it waned about 1870, possibly due to society's not understanding a platonic friendship between a man and a woman. Edited and with an introduction by Richard Curle. with a frontis tissue-guarded portrait of Ms. Wedgwood, and other illustrations. Facsimiles of letters by each are tipped in. --- In tan cloth with cameos of both Browning and Wedgwood in blind to cover; titling in gilt to spine. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- With prior owner's signature to front free endpaper and discreet Chicago bookseller label to rear paste-down, otherwise a clean, tightly-bound, sound copy.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xxiii, 199 pages. Very Good+ with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir >>Writers, Writing & Literary Criticism
Price: US$ 30.50 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 84714
- Book number: 84714