Robert Browning - An Account of the Illness and Death of His Father, Robert Browning the Second - Privately Printed for Thomas J. Wise, Limited to 30 Copies - $225

BROWNING, Robert. An Account of the Illness and Death of His Father, Robert Browning the Second: With Further Records of Walter Savage Landor.

London: Richard Clay and Sons, 1921. Printed for private circulation for Thomas J. Wise and limited to 30 copies. Sewn pink paper wraps. Pages still uncut along edges. Covers show some toning and fading along with some light creasing at corners, but no chips, tears, or marks. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Not an ex-library copy. 

Browning's letter to the artist Baron Seymour Kirkup dated February 19, 1867. Edited and privately published by Thomas J. Wise, the collector and bibliographer notoriously exposed in 1934 for producing number of literary forgeries and stolen documents. This pamphlet was limited to a print run of thirty copies, roughly a third of which are accounted for in institutional holdings. [Pearsall C3582.1]

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