BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett. “The Poetical Works” [Syndicate Trading Co, c1890s]

BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

New York: Syndicate Trading Company, n.d. (circa late 19th century). Octavo. Complete in one volume. Publisher’s decorative beige cloth stamped in green and silver with floral ornamentation, the front board titled within a wreath design; spine decorated to match. Cloth somewhat darkened with scattered staining and wear to the spine, but binding remains sound. Interior clean with only light age toning to the pages. Bookplate inside front cover. A solid and decorative reading copy. Good+.

A handsome collected edition of the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, one of the most celebrated English poets of the Victorian period. Best known for works such as Sonnets from the Portuguese, Aurora Leigh, and numerous lyrical and political poems, Browning’s writing helped shape the poetic voice of the nineteenth century and remains central to the canon of Victorian literature. This edition gathers her major poems into a single volume and presents them in an attractively ornamented publisher’s binding typical of the late-Victorian gift-book tradition.