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Elizabeth Barrett Browning with Robert Browning

This is a back-to-back volume of the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) with her husband Robert Browning (1812 - 1889).

Carr did not state how many editions of the Brownings that he had published is his History of the QTP (1987), but it is listed, so one is assumed. Two impressions have been seen which differ only in the colour of their card covers. They are both otherwise the same and both were printed by the same company, which Carr used when he had published between 35-40 titles, so probably before 1987. The edition of Robert Browning alone was probably published after 1987, based on the serial number (95) and the quality of the printing. I don't know in which order the two impressions shown below were published, so I have guessed.


(Last updated on 6/11/2020)



SBP-BRO-BRO1: First impression?


Publisher: J.L. Carr, 27 Milldale Road, Kettering

Year: 197?

ISBN: None

Size: 128 x 97 mm

Pages: 16, EBB on pages 1-3

Staples: one

Binding: glossy white printed card covers

Paper: white

Illustrations: none within

Editor: (J.L. Carr)

Cover artist: (J.L. Carr)

Internal illustrations: none

Number in series: none given

Colophon: none

Telephone number: none

Printing history: none stated

Number of other titles listed: none

Printed by: G. Smith (Thrapston) Limited of Northamptonshire

Content: Biography of Elizabeth Barrett; quotations; quotation from EBB. Poems: Sonnets from the Portuguese (pp 2-3).

Notes: Carr dedicated the book to Mr Rankin, a teacher at Castleford Secondary School, who introduced him to Browning's poetry in 1928.

Image of book

Rear and front covers (click to enlarge)


Image of book

Inside front cover of Elizabeth Barrett Browning




SBP-BRO-BRO2: Second impression?


Publisher: J.L. Carr, 27 Milldale Road, Kettering

Year: 197?

ISBN: None

Size: 130 x 97 mm

Pages: 16, EBB on pages 1-3

Staples: one

Binding: glossy white printed card covers

Paper: white

Illustrations: none within

Editor: (J.L. Carr)

Cover artist: (J.L. Carr)

Internal illustrations: none

Number in series: none given

Colophon: none

Telephone number: none

Printing history: none stated

Number of other titles listed: none

Printed by: G. Smith (Thrapston) Limited of Northamptonshire

Content: Biography of Elizabeth Barrett; quotations; quotation from EBB. Poems: Sonnets from the Portuguese (pp 2-3).

Notes: Carr dedicated the book to Mr Rankin, a teacher at Castleford Secondary School, who introduced him to Browning's poetry in 1928.

Image of book

Rear and front covers (click to enlarge)


Image of book

Inside front cover of Elizabeth Barrett Browning