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Auction archive: Lot number 67

BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861) Autograph notebook, ...

Estimate
US$200,000 - US$300,000
Price realised:
US$266,500
Auction archive: Lot number 67

BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861) Autograph notebook, ...

Estimate
US$200,000 - US$300,000
Price realised:
US$266,500
Beschreibung:

BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861). Autograph notebook, entitled "MSS. By Elizabeth Barrett," containing drafts and working manuscripts of 15 poems (one a series of nine sonnets), including "The Cry of the Human," "Wisdom Unapplied," "The Maiden's Death," "To E.W. C. Painting My Picture," "The Gorse," "The Repose - written in sickness -- but in happiness," "Calls on the Heart," "A Sabbath Morning at Sea," "L. E. .L.'s Last Question," "Loved One," "From Below & From Above," "Sonnets in the Night," "The Fourfold Aspect," Valediction," "An Ode to America: Here's a Land of Noble Freemen," two dated 1839.
BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861). Autograph notebook, entitled "MSS. By Elizabeth Barrett," containing drafts and working manuscripts of 15 poems (one a series of nine sonnets), including "The Cry of the Human," "Wisdom Unapplied," "The Maiden's Death," "To E.W. C. Painting My Picture," "The Gorse," "The Repose - written in sickness -- but in happiness," "Calls on the Heart," "A Sabbath Morning at Sea," "L. E. .L.'s Last Question," "Loved One," "From Below & From Above," "Sonnets in the Night," "The Fourfold Aspect," Valediction," "An Ode to America: Here's a Land of Noble Freemen," two dated 1839. 4 o (200 x 165mm). Title-page and 68 pages of verse, written mostly on rectos, but some versos with additional or reworked verses, in a blank book of 117 pages of wove paper. (Pages 105/106, 107/108 and 109/100 neatly detached.) Contemporary red morocco-backed marbled paper boards, marbled edges (slightly rubbed, especially at extremities). In a dark blue morocco pull-off box, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. THE REDISCOVERY OF AN IMPORTANT POETRY NOTEBOOK OF ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, WITH A SEQUENCE OF "SONNETS IN THE NIGHT" This remarkable and very extensive album of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's early mature verse contains unique drafts and works partly or wholly unpublished, as well as works whose texts differ from the published version. Dated 1839, it predates Elizabeth Barrett's fateful meeting in 1845 with poet Robert Browning and their famous courtship and marriage. Sold in 1913 in the dispersal of the poets' estate, its location has been untraced since offered for sale in Maggs catalogue No.340 issued in 1915. Its rediscovery fills a significant gap in the extant series of Browning's notebooks as enumerated in Kelley and Coley. The notebook, unstudied by several generations of scholars, will provide revealing glimpses of the poet's work to fine-tune her poetic voice and to master and perfect the sonnet form, efforts that culminated in her classic series of "Sonnets from the Portuguese," a decade later. It is certainly the most important manuscript of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to come to light since the sale of the Houghton Collection at Christie's in 1979. Philip Kelley & Betty A. Coley, The Browning Collections: A Reconstruction (1984), D1411. CONTENTS: pp. 3,5,7,9,11 The Cry of the Human Coley & Kelley D172 Incipit: "'There is no God,' the foolish sayeth..." 5 pages. Thirteen 10-line stanzas. Two revisions. Published in Boston Miscellany of Literature and Fashion , November 1842; collected in Complete Works , ed. C. Porter and H.A. Clarke (1900), vol.2, pp. 84-89. pp. 12,13,14,15 Wisdom Unapplied D1122 Incipit: "If I were thou, O butterfly..." 4 pages. 22 3-line stanzas. A working manuscript, latter stanzas in particular show heavy revisions and corrections. Four stanzas penned on facing recto (p.12). First page illustrated in Maggs, catalogue no.340 (1919), item 1559. One version published in Christian Mother's Magazine , 1845; collected in Complete Works , ed. C. Porter and H.A. Clarke (1900), vol.3, pp. 195-198. pp. 17,19 The Maiden's Death D503 Incipit: "Is she dying? Ye who grieve..." 2 pages. 34 lines in two stanzas. Published in The Pioneer (Boston, 1843); and in New Poems by Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning , ed. F.G. Kenyon (1914), pp. 133-134. pp. 20,21,23 To E.W.C. Painting My Picture (Here titled "To a Friend Painting my Picture (some years since)" D964 Incipit: "Is it thy mood, o friend, to trace..." 3 pages. Circa ten 8-line stanzas, about 100 lines. Starts on p.21 as fair copy, following stanzas become working manuscript with very heavy revisions and several stanzas drafted on p.20. Another draft ms. (six 8-line stanzas) is in the Berg Collection. Lines 1-14 illustrated in Maggs catalogue 340 (1915). One version published in Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Hitherto Unpublished Poems and Stories , ed. H. B. Forman, Boston, 1914, vol. 2, pp.179-180. pp. 25,27,29,31,33,35 The Gorse D317 In

Auction archive: Lot number 67
Auction:
Datum:
5 Dec 2008
Auction house:
Christie's
5 December 2008, New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861). Autograph notebook, entitled "MSS. By Elizabeth Barrett," containing drafts and working manuscripts of 15 poems (one a series of nine sonnets), including "The Cry of the Human," "Wisdom Unapplied," "The Maiden's Death," "To E.W. C. Painting My Picture," "The Gorse," "The Repose - written in sickness -- but in happiness," "Calls on the Heart," "A Sabbath Morning at Sea," "L. E. .L.'s Last Question," "Loved One," "From Below & From Above," "Sonnets in the Night," "The Fourfold Aspect," Valediction," "An Ode to America: Here's a Land of Noble Freemen," two dated 1839.
BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861). Autograph notebook, entitled "MSS. By Elizabeth Barrett," containing drafts and working manuscripts of 15 poems (one a series of nine sonnets), including "The Cry of the Human," "Wisdom Unapplied," "The Maiden's Death," "To E.W. C. Painting My Picture," "The Gorse," "The Repose - written in sickness -- but in happiness," "Calls on the Heart," "A Sabbath Morning at Sea," "L. E. .L.'s Last Question," "Loved One," "From Below & From Above," "Sonnets in the Night," "The Fourfold Aspect," Valediction," "An Ode to America: Here's a Land of Noble Freemen," two dated 1839. 4 o (200 x 165mm). Title-page and 68 pages of verse, written mostly on rectos, but some versos with additional or reworked verses, in a blank book of 117 pages of wove paper. (Pages 105/106, 107/108 and 109/100 neatly detached.) Contemporary red morocco-backed marbled paper boards, marbled edges (slightly rubbed, especially at extremities). In a dark blue morocco pull-off box, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. THE REDISCOVERY OF AN IMPORTANT POETRY NOTEBOOK OF ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, WITH A SEQUENCE OF "SONNETS IN THE NIGHT" This remarkable and very extensive album of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's early mature verse contains unique drafts and works partly or wholly unpublished, as well as works whose texts differ from the published version. Dated 1839, it predates Elizabeth Barrett's fateful meeting in 1845 with poet Robert Browning and their famous courtship and marriage. Sold in 1913 in the dispersal of the poets' estate, its location has been untraced since offered for sale in Maggs catalogue No.340 issued in 1915. Its rediscovery fills a significant gap in the extant series of Browning's notebooks as enumerated in Kelley and Coley. The notebook, unstudied by several generations of scholars, will provide revealing glimpses of the poet's work to fine-tune her poetic voice and to master and perfect the sonnet form, efforts that culminated in her classic series of "Sonnets from the Portuguese," a decade later. It is certainly the most important manuscript of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to come to light since the sale of the Houghton Collection at Christie's in 1979. Philip Kelley & Betty A. Coley, The Browning Collections: A Reconstruction (1984), D1411. CONTENTS: pp. 3,5,7,9,11 The Cry of the Human Coley & Kelley D172 Incipit: "'There is no God,' the foolish sayeth..." 5 pages. Thirteen 10-line stanzas. Two revisions. Published in Boston Miscellany of Literature and Fashion , November 1842; collected in Complete Works , ed. C. Porter and H.A. Clarke (1900), vol.2, pp. 84-89. pp. 12,13,14,15 Wisdom Unapplied D1122 Incipit: "If I were thou, O butterfly..." 4 pages. 22 3-line stanzas. A working manuscript, latter stanzas in particular show heavy revisions and corrections. Four stanzas penned on facing recto (p.12). First page illustrated in Maggs, catalogue no.340 (1919), item 1559. One version published in Christian Mother's Magazine , 1845; collected in Complete Works , ed. C. Porter and H.A. Clarke (1900), vol.3, pp. 195-198. pp. 17,19 The Maiden's Death D503 Incipit: "Is she dying? Ye who grieve..." 2 pages. 34 lines in two stanzas. Published in The Pioneer (Boston, 1843); and in New Poems by Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning , ed. F.G. Kenyon (1914), pp. 133-134. pp. 20,21,23 To E.W.C. Painting My Picture (Here titled "To a Friend Painting my Picture (some years since)" D964 Incipit: "Is it thy mood, o friend, to trace..." 3 pages. Circa ten 8-line stanzas, about 100 lines. Starts on p.21 as fair copy, following stanzas become working manuscript with very heavy revisions and several stanzas drafted on p.20. Another draft ms. (six 8-line stanzas) is in the Berg Collection. Lines 1-14 illustrated in Maggs catalogue 340 (1915). One version published in Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Hitherto Unpublished Poems and Stories , ed. H. B. Forman, Boston, 1914, vol. 2, pp.179-180. pp. 25,27,29,31,33,35 The Gorse D317 In

Auction archive: Lot number 67
Auction:
Datum:
5 Dec 2008
Auction house:
Christie's
5 December 2008, New York, Rockefeller Center
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