BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett “Poetical Works” [Thomas Y. Crowell, n.d./c1900]

BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett. The Poetical Works.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, n.d./c1900. Complete edition. Green cloth, decoratively stamped in gilt with an Art Nouveau-style floral design to front and spine. All edges gilt. With frontispiece portrait. Light rubbing at extremities with minor wear at spine ends; a few small areas of discoloration to boards. Bookplate on FFEP. Interior clean with occasional light spotting, frontispiece tissue intact. Very Good.

A classic Crowell gift edition, reflecting the late 19th-century vogue for richly ornamented bindings that paired canonical authors with accessible, well-produced volumes for the general reader. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s work—particularly Sonnets from the Portuguese and Aurora Leigh—remained central to Victorian literary culture well into the early 20th century, making editions like this both widely read and enduringly collectible.