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Monthly Archives: June 2016

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Draft of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning Draft of “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point” (Browning Guide D0800 and D0802) Rare Item Analysis:  by Allie Matherne The pre-fair copy manuscript of “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point,” located in the Browning Letters and Manuscripts collection at Armstrong…

Christina Rossetti’s Verses and Goblin Market and Other Poems

Christina Rossetti Verses. London: Privately printed at G. Polidori’s, 1847 (ABLibrary 19thCent PR5237.V4 1847) Goblin Market and Other Poems 1862 First edition (ABLibrary 19thCent PR5237.G6 1862) Rare Item Analysis:  by Chelsea Lee Christina Rossetti, most easily recognized and regarded for her poem “Goblin Market,” is…

Browning Under Scrutiny: Letters to Robert Browning Concerning The Ring and the Book

Letters: 15 November 1868 Julia Wedgewood to Robert Browning 19 November 1868 Robert Browning to Julia Wedgewood 6 March 1869 Helena Faucit Martin to Robert Browning Rare Item analysis: Letters to Robert Browning: Browning Under Scrutiny by Allison Le Grice Between 1868 and 1869, Robert…

Early Poetic Drafts of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Relating to “The Cry of the Children”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning Manuscript containing early poem drafts relating to “The Cry of the Children” (Browning Guide D0782): “Rock me softly–softly mother” “O pardon dear lady, for standing unsightly” Rare Item Analysis: By Tyler Cagle My rare item was a journal of Elizabeth…

Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript of “The Island”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript of “The Island” (which completes the manuscript for the ABL collections, as the other half of the manuscript was already held by the ABL) Acquired December 2015

Robert Browning letter to Lady Augusta Stanley, 23 November 1873

Robert Browning letter to Lady Augusta Stanley, 23 November 1873 (plus an assortment of five Victorian and American pieces) Acquired December 2015

John Henry Newman’s Sermons Bearing on Subjects of the Day, 1st Ed.

A first edition of John Henry Newman’s Sermons Bearing on Subjects of the Day (London:   Rivington, 1843). Inscribed by Newman to his lifelong friend Ambrose St. John. On his death in 1890, Newman’s body was, at his request, buried in the grave…

George MacDonald’s At the Back of the North Wind, 1st Ed.

A first edition of George MacDonald’s At the Back of the North Wind, with 76 illustrations after Arthur Hughes (London: Strahan & Co., 1871 [1870]), in original binding Acquired December 2015

Collection of 72 ephemeral items relating to the early years of the Oxford Movement

A collection of 72 ephemeral items bound together in a single volume, collected by William Jacobson, relating to the early years of the Oxford Movement (Various printers: 1835-1845), including a 10-line note from E. B. Pusey to Jacobson and several inscriptions from Pusey…

Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus. In Three Books. Reprinted for Friends from Fraser’s Magazine

A first separate edition (one of only 58 copies) of Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus. In Three Books. Reprinted for Friends from Fraser’s Magazine (London: James Fraser, 1834) Inscribed by Carlyle to his friend Edward Irving, who introduced Carlyle to his future wife Jane Welsh…