Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day
London: Chapman and Hall, 1850.
First edition, first printing. [iv], 142, [1] pp., no advertisement pages at rear as issued. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth (Carter's Variant C) blind ruled with ornamental gilt titles and frame at upper board with plain spine. Very Good with lean to binding, rubbing at extremities with soiling and rippling to cloth; light scratching to rear board. Inner gutter tender with small abrasion at center, blind embossed ex-libris stamp of British bookseller W. H. Smith at front free endpaper. Offsetting at half-title and verso of last leaf,scattered marginal foxing. Two of the Victorian writer's religious narrative poems published together just after his marriage to Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Broughton A54. Item #140948484
Price: $2,000