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BROWNING, Robert (1812-1889). Paracelsus . London: Effingham Wilson, 1835. 8 (163 x 105mm). (D1-2 heavily stained, some lighter soiling and staining, H3-6 cut short at lower margin.) Contemporary purple calf, gilt edges (rubbed). FIRST EDITION of Bro...

Auction 02.06.1999
02.06.1999
Schätzpreis
1.500 £ - 2.500 £
ca. 2.393 $ - 3.989 $
Zuschlagspreis:
2.185 £
ca. 3.487 $
Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 76

BROWNING, Robert (1812-1889). Paracelsus . London: Effingham Wilson, 1835. 8 (163 x 105mm). (D1-2 heavily stained, some lighter soiling and staining, H3-6 cut short at lower margin.) Contemporary purple calf, gilt edges (rubbed). FIRST EDITION of Bro...

Auction 02.06.1999
02.06.1999
Schätzpreis
1.500 £ - 2.500 £
ca. 2.393 $ - 3.989 $
Zuschlagspreis:
2.185 £
ca. 3.487 $
Beschreibung:

BROWNING, Robert (1812-1889). Paracelsus . London: Effingham Wilson, 1835. 8 (163 x 105mm). (D1-2 heavily stained, some lighter soiling and staining, H3-6 cut short at lower margin.) Contemporary purple calf, gilt edges (rubbed). FIRST EDITION of Browning's second separately-published work. Provenance : PRESENTATION COPY, half title inscribed: 'the author to his dear friend W. A. Dow.' Two textual corrections, one to p. 3 ('crane-brake' altered to 'cane-brake'), the other to p. 19 ('sullen friend' altered to 'sullen fiend'). Broughton A4; Wise 2. R. BROWNING. Strafford; An historical tragedy . London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1837. 8 (210 x 135mm). (Some marginal soiling.) Contemporary green cloth (lacking spine, upper cover water-stained). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, title inscribed: 'W. A. Dow, with the best wishes of his most affectionate friend, R. B.'. Broughton A8; Wise 3. R. BROWNING. Sordello . London: Edward Moxon, 1840. 8 (161 x 103mm). (Title and preliminaries heavily stained at margins, corners of endleaves similarly stained.) Contemporary half calf, gilt edges, (upper cover detached). FIRST EDITION, one of 500 copies printed. Provenance : PRESENTATION COPY, half title inscribed: 'W. A. Dow Esq. from his friend, R.B.' (the inscription cropped with slight loss). Broughton A14; Wise 4. With a collection of 11 contemporary plays uniformly bound in 2 volumes, the majority by James Sheridan Knowles, but also including another copy of Browning's Strafford with the ownership signature of W. A. Dow, and T. N. Talfourd's Ion: A tragedy (privately printed, [1835]), inscribed to Dow by W. C. Macready on front blank -- and a copy of Macready's Reminiscences (London, 1875, 2 vols.) from the Dow family library. William Alexander Dow (d. 1848, aged 41), of Southwark, was a lawyer and sometime legal adviser to Macready, producer and dedicatee of Browning's second play Strafford , and references to Dow occur in the second volume of Macready's Reminiscences . Browning wrote the lines for the tombstone of Dow's father who died in October 1832, though the lines in question may not have been written until 1836. For this reason, there has been a lack of certainty as to when the two first met, and the manuscript dedication to Dow on Browning's first play, Paracelsus , substantiates that this was at least as early as 1835. On August 29 1837, Browning wrote to Dow stating: 'I am working well enough at Sordello never fear: I shall soon get the better of the monster....' ( The Brownings' Correspondence , Letter 586, vol. III, p. 280). But this third play met such a hostile reception that his reputation was eclipsed for over twenty years. (7)

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 76
Auktion:
Datum:
02.06.1999
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

BROWNING, Robert (1812-1889). Paracelsus . London: Effingham Wilson, 1835. 8 (163 x 105mm). (D1-2 heavily stained, some lighter soiling and staining, H3-6 cut short at lower margin.) Contemporary purple calf, gilt edges (rubbed). FIRST EDITION of Browning's second separately-published work. Provenance : PRESENTATION COPY, half title inscribed: 'the author to his dear friend W. A. Dow.' Two textual corrections, one to p. 3 ('crane-brake' altered to 'cane-brake'), the other to p. 19 ('sullen friend' altered to 'sullen fiend'). Broughton A4; Wise 2. R. BROWNING. Strafford; An historical tragedy . London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1837. 8 (210 x 135mm). (Some marginal soiling.) Contemporary green cloth (lacking spine, upper cover water-stained). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, title inscribed: 'W. A. Dow, with the best wishes of his most affectionate friend, R. B.'. Broughton A8; Wise 3. R. BROWNING. Sordello . London: Edward Moxon, 1840. 8 (161 x 103mm). (Title and preliminaries heavily stained at margins, corners of endleaves similarly stained.) Contemporary half calf, gilt edges, (upper cover detached). FIRST EDITION, one of 500 copies printed. Provenance : PRESENTATION COPY, half title inscribed: 'W. A. Dow Esq. from his friend, R.B.' (the inscription cropped with slight loss). Broughton A14; Wise 4. With a collection of 11 contemporary plays uniformly bound in 2 volumes, the majority by James Sheridan Knowles, but also including another copy of Browning's Strafford with the ownership signature of W. A. Dow, and T. N. Talfourd's Ion: A tragedy (privately printed, [1835]), inscribed to Dow by W. C. Macready on front blank -- and a copy of Macready's Reminiscences (London, 1875, 2 vols.) from the Dow family library. William Alexander Dow (d. 1848, aged 41), of Southwark, was a lawyer and sometime legal adviser to Macready, producer and dedicatee of Browning's second play Strafford , and references to Dow occur in the second volume of Macready's Reminiscences . Browning wrote the lines for the tombstone of Dow's father who died in October 1832, though the lines in question may not have been written until 1836. For this reason, there has been a lack of certainty as to when the two first met, and the manuscript dedication to Dow on Browning's first play, Paracelsus , substantiates that this was at least as early as 1835. On August 29 1837, Browning wrote to Dow stating: 'I am working well enough at Sordello never fear: I shall soon get the better of the monster....' ( The Brownings' Correspondence , Letter 586, vol. III, p. 280). But this third play met such a hostile reception that his reputation was eclipsed for over twenty years. (7)

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 76
Auktion:
Datum:
02.06.1999
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
London, King Street
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