[Rarebooks] FS: Robert Browning's SORDELLO, 1840, First Edition in original boards

[Charles Agvent]

BROWNING, Robert SORDELLO
Edward Moxon London 1840 First Edition. Octavo, bound in original drab 
boards with original paper spine label; 253, [1], 16 pages. Wise A4. 
Only 500 copies of the total edition printed with an unknown number 
bound in this first state binding. Ad leaf and catalogue dated 1 January 
1840. Signature of Mary Hook on title. Modern institutional bookplate on 
pastedown. Some loss of cloth at heel of spine. Joints split but still 
tight. In rubbed half morocco box. Decent copy of a very fragile book. 
$1250.00
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