Robert (1782) Browning Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Robert (1782) Browning Art Value Price Guide

Jun. 21, 2023
BROWNING (ROBERT) Two autograph letters signed ('Robert Browning'), to Virginia Gabriel and Lady de Grey, 1866/88
Est: £2,000 - £3,000
BROWNING (ROBERT) Two autograph letters signed ('Robert Browning'), the first to 'Miss Gabriel', beginning '...'How good are you and how unworthy am I'... 'I am more stupid than ungrateful and even (I hope) more reckless than stupid, - for it is hardly my fault that I can so seldom do what I like... however, may Spring be coming, for anything I know, and with it a chance of better fortune...', one page, 8vo (182 x 114mm.), Warwick Crescent, Upper Westbourne Avenue, 23 January [18]66; the second to Lady de Grey ('Dear Lady de Grey'), regretting he is unable to dine with her as he is '...forced to be at Oxford that day...', one page on a bifolium, 8vo (182 x 114mm.), Warwick Crescent, Upper Westbourne Terrace, 18 February [18]68; both affixed to an album leaf with an illustrated envelope addressed to Miss Gabriel, 5 Chester Street, London, S.W. depicting a lion in a cave, and a portrait of Robert Browning cut from a larger photograph by Elliot & Fry (4)
Bonhams
Jan. 28, 2015
Browning, Robert
Est: £100 - £150
Browning, Robert Collection of seven first editions, and 1 other: Balaustion's Adventure, Smith, Elder & Co., 1871, upper hinge partially split; Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, saviour of society, 1871, hinges fragile; Dramatic Idyls, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1879; Dramatic Idyls. Second series, Smith, Elder & Co, 1880; Jocoseria, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1883; Parleyings with certain people of importance in their day, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1887; Asolando: Fancies and Facts, Smith, Elder & Co., 1890. First editions, original cloth bindings, some foxing, some covers slightly worn, in folding cloth chemises; [and] The Poems of Matthew Arnold 1840-1867. London: 1913, calf gilt by Brentano's; 8vo (8)
Lyon & Turnbull
Dec. 17, 2014
Browning, Robert
Est: £2,500 - £4,000
Browning, Robert
Sotheby's
Jan. 15, 2014
Browning, Robert
Est: £100 - £120
Browning, Robert Christmas-Eve and Easter Day. Chapman and Hall, 1850. First edition, 8vo, original dark green cloth, with a double blind ruled border, upper board with author and title in gilt within a gilt frame, spine with a handwritten paper label, label chipped, yellow endpapers, (Carter C binding); [Idem] Men and women. Chapman and Hall, 1855. First edition, 2 volumes, 12mo, contemporary dark green polished morocco, spine decorated gilt in compartments, a little rubbed; [Idem] The Ring and the book. Smith, Elder, 1868-69. First edition, 4 volumes, 8vo, original dark green cloth over bevelled boards, spines lettered in gilt, boards with black double line and tooth roll border, volumes all numbered in Roman, a little rubbing to heads and tails; [Idem] Autograph signature, dated "London, May 18, '64", on slip of paper 5x10cm, framed with engraved portrait by A. Wagner, overall frame size 37x28cm (7)
Lyon & Turnbull
Dec. 05, 2013
The Pied Piper of Hamlin
Est: $250 - $350
Four color plates by Arthur Rackham. (8vo) original illustrated stiff paper wrappers, pictorial dust jacket. First Trade Edition.
PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers
Nov. 12, 2013
BROWNING (ROBERT)
Est: -
BROWNING (ROBERT)
Bonhams
Sep. 26, 2013
Pied Piper of Hamlin in original dj Rackham Illustrations
Est: $400 - $600
Four color plates by Arthur Rackham. (8vo) original illustrated stiff paper wrappers, pictorial dust jacket. First Trade Edition.
PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers
Sep. 04, 2013
Browning, Robert
Est: £150 - £250
Browning, Robert Bells and pomegranates. London: Edward Moxon, 1841-1846. First edition (part V second edition, as usual, other parts first editions), 8 parts in one volume, 8vo, bookplate of Sir Henry Maine to paste-down endpaper, contemporary maroon half morocco, some very slight darkening and a couple of occasional spots, covers and spine rubbed and soiled, upper board detached, without the half-title to part 2, the leaves of advertisements in volumes 7 and 8, or the blank leaves in volumes 3 and 8, internally clean
Lyon & Turnbull
Sep. 04, 2013
Browning, Robert
Est: £250 - £350
Browning, Robert Balauston's adventure: including a transcript from Euripides. London: Smith, Elder, 1871. First edition, 12mo, original brown cloth; [Idem] Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau: saviour of society. London: Smith Elder, 1871. First edition, 12mo, original blue cloth over bevelled boards; [Idem] Fifine at the fair. London: Smith, Elder, 1872. First edition, small 8vo, original brown cloth over bevelled boards; [Idem] Red cotton night-cap country or turf and towers. London: Smith, Elder, 1873. First edition, small 8vo, original green cloth over bevelled boards; [Idem] The Inn album. London: Smith, Elder, 1875. First edition, small 8vo,original green cloth over bevelled boards; [Idem] Aristophanes' apology... London: Smith, Elder, 1875. First edition, small 8vo, original green cloth over bevelled boards; [Idem] Pacchiarotto... London: Smith, Elder, 1876. First edition, small 8vo, original grey brown cloth over bevelled boards; [Idem] The Agamemnon of Aeschylus transcribed by Robert Browning. London: Smith, Elder, 1877. First edition, small 8vo, original green cloth over bevelled boards; [Idem] La Saisaz: the two poets of Croisic. London: Smith, Elder, 1878. First edition, small 8vo, original medium blue cloth over bevelled boards; [Idem] Dramatic idylls. London: Smith, Elder, 1879. First edition, small 8vo, original olive brown cloth over bevelled boards; [Idem] Dramatic idylls: second series. London: Smith, Elder, 1880. First edition, small 8vo, original maroon cloth over bevelled boards; [Idem] Jocoseria. London: Smith, Elder, 1883. First edition, small 8vo, contemporary half red morocco, marbled boards; [Idem] Parleyings with certain people of importance in their day … London: Smith, Elder, 1887. First edition, small 8vo, original red brown cloth; [Idem] Asolando: fancies and facts. London: Smith, Elder, 1890. First edition, small 8vo, original red cloth over bevelled boards; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Specimens of the table talk. London: John Murray, 1835. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume 1, engraved plate to volume 2, contemporary half calf, marbled boards (17)
Lyon & Turnbull
Sep. 04, 2013
Browning, Robert
Est: £200 - £300
Browning, Robert Christmas-Eve and Easter Day. London: Chapman and Hall, 1850. First edition, 8vo, original dark green cloth, with a double blind ruled border, upper board with author and title in gilt within a gilt frame, spine with a handwritten paper label, label chipped, yellow endpapers, (Carter C binding); [Idem] Men and women. London: Chapman and Hall, 1855. First edition, 2 volumes, 12mo, contemporary dark green polished morocco, spine decorated gilt in compartments, a little rubbed; [Idem] The Ring and the book. London: Smith, Elder, 1868-69. First edition, 4 volumes, 8vo, original dark green cloth over bevelled boards, spines lettered in gilt, boards with black double line and tooth roll border, volumes all numbered in Roman, a little rubbing to heads and tails; [Idem] Autograph signature, dated "London, May 18, '64", on slip of paper 5x10cm, framed with engraved portrait by A. Wagner, overall frame size 37x28cm (7)
Lyon & Turnbull
Jun. 25, 2013
BROWNING (ROBERT)
Est: £150 - £200
The Pied Piper of Hamelin, NUMBER 49 OF 100 EDITION DE LUXE COPIES PRINTED ON VELLUM AND SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR, illustrations and decorations throughout by Harry Quilter, frontispiece printed in colours, publisher's decorative calf gilt, 2 embossed plaques inset on upper cover, rebacked preserving original spine, folio, Harry Quilter, 1898
Bonhams
May. 15, 2013
Browning, Robert
Est: £100 - £150
Browning, Robert Autograph signature, dated "London, May 18, '64", on slip of paper 5 x 10cm., framed with engraved portrait by A. Wagner, overall frame size 37 x 28cm.
Lyon & Turnbull
May. 15, 2013
Browning, Robert
Est: £200 - £300
Browning, Robert Pacchiarotto and how he worked in distemper: with other poems. London: Smith, Elder, 1876. First edition, small 8vo., original grey brown cloth over bevelled boards; [Idem] The Agamemnon of Aeschylus transcribed by Robert Browning. London: Smith, Elder, 1877. First edition, small 8vo., original green cloth over bevelled boards; [Idem] La Saisaz: the two poets of Croisic. London: Smith, Elder, 1878. First edition, small 8vo., original medium blue cloth over bevelled boards; [Idem] Dramatic idylls. London: Smith, Elder, 1879. First edition, small 8vo., original olive brown cloth over bevelled boards, spine darkened; [Idem] Dramatic idylls: second series. London: Smith, Elder, 1880. First edition, small 8vo., original maroon cloth over bevelled boards; [Idem] Jocoseria. London: Smith, Elder, 1883. First edition, small 8vo., contemporary half red morocco, marbled boards, rubbed; [Idem] Parleyings with certain people of importance in their day … London: Smith, Elder, 1887. First edition, small 8vo., original red brown cloth, a little wear at head and tail; [Idem] Asolando: fancies and facts. London: Smith, Elder, 1890. First edition, small 8vo., original red cloth over bevelled boards (8)
Lyon & Turnbull
May. 15, 2013
Browning, Robert
Est: £150 - £250
Browning, Robert Balauston's adventure: including a transcript from Euripides. London: Smith, Elder, 1871. First edition, 12mo., original brown cloth, titlepage a little foxed; [Idem] Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau: saviour of society. London: Smith Elder, 1871. First edition, 12mo., original blue cloth over bevelled boards, with "BY" in capitals on the spine; [Idem] Fifine at the fair. London: Smith, Elder, 1872. First edition, small 8vo., original brown cloth over bevelled boards; [Idem] Red cotton night-cap country or turf and towers. London: Smith, Elder, 1873. First edition, small 8vo., original green cloth over bevelled boards, a little rubbing to head and tail, a few leaves with some spots; [Idem] The Inn album. London: Smith, Elder, 1875. First edition, small 8vo.,original green cloth over bevelled boards; [Idem] Aristophanes' apology including a transcript from Euripides being the last adventure of Balaustion. London: Smith, Elder, 1875. First edition, small 8vo., original green cloth over bevelled boards, upper cover with black , blind ruled border, a little wear to head and tail, spine darkened, small stain to lower margin of front endpapers (6)
Lyon & Turnbull
May. 15, 2013
Browning, Robert
Est: £150 - £250
Browning, Robert The Poetical works. London: Smith, Elder, 1888. First edition thus, 17 volumes, 8vo. on large paper, tan buckram, printed paper labels, uncut and unopened, spines darkened,slight wear at head and tails, covers a little spotted, some offsetting to endpapers, one of 250 copies (17)
Lyon & Turnbull
May. 15, 2013
Browning, Robert
Est: £150 - £250
Browning, Robert The Ring and the book. London: Smith, Elder, 1868-69. First edition, 4 volumes, 8vo., original dark green cloth over bevelled boards, spines lettered in gilt, boards with black double line and tooth roll border, volumes all numbered in Roman, a little rubbing to heads and tails (4)
Lyon & Turnbull
May. 15, 2013
Browning, Robert
Est: £150 - £250
Browning, Robert Christmas-Eve and Easter Day. London: Chapman and Hall, 1850. First edition, 8vo., original dark green cloth, with a double blind ruled border, upper board with author and title in gilt within a gilt frame, spine with a handwritten paper label, label chipped, yellow endpapers, (Carter C binding);
Lyon & Turnbull
May. 15, 2013
Browning, Robert
Est: £300 - £500
Browning, Robert Bells and pomegranates. London: Edward Moxon, 1841-1846. First edition (number V second edition, as usual), 8vo, bookplate of Sir Henry Maine to paste-down endpaper, contemporary quarter morocco, some very slight darkening and a couple of occasional spots, covers and spine rubbed and soiled, upper hinge beginning to split
Lyon & Turnbull
May. 15, 2013
Browning, Robert
Est: £500 - £700
Browning, Robert Paracelsus. London: Effingham Wilson, 1835. First edition, 8vo., half-title, original paper boards, printed paper label, spine slightly chipped, extremities a little rubbed, corner of label chipped (not affecting lettering), loosely inserted is Robert Browning's signature mounted on board, in a cloth solander case.
Lyon & Turnbull
May. 14, 2013
Browning, Robert
Est: £300 - £400
Browning, Robert Letter written and signed by Robert Browning to Mr Woolner, dated 10th? May 1873?, in which Browning replies to what can be assumed to be Mr Woolner's request for a poem to honour the memory of a deceased friend, Browning writes that he wishes he, "...could believe that a poem of mine would be of service to dearest I.B.", 1 folded leaf, 22.1cm. x 18.1cm, armorial crest in blind with motto 'virtue', first and last page a little dust-soiled, very slight closed tear to centre fold, couple of light notes in pencil
Lyon & Turnbull
Nov. 13, 2012
BROWNING (ROBERT)
Est: £300 - £500
Autograph letter signed ("Robert Browning"), to his friend Charlotte Moscheles, informing him that his sister Sarianna has suffered a severe inflammatory attack which, although she is improving, means that he dare not leave her side, and subscribing himself "Yours affectionately ever"; tipped into a copy of Dramatic Idyls (1879), 2 pages, on light blue paper, engraved heading, guard (obscuring a few words), some foxing, small 8vo, Warwick Crescent, 11 June 1886
Bonhams
May. 23, 2012
BROWNING (ROBERT)
Est: £1,000 - £1,500
Autograph letter signed ("Robert Browning"), to Walter B. Slater, book collector and friend of Thomas J. Wise, returning a book which had belonged to the forger Thomas Powell ("...an example of the practices of Thomas Powell, its original owner, – which consisted in affecting to forge, in sport, the signatures of his acquaintance in order to subsequently induce the belief, when his serious forgeries should be discovered, that he was simply a monomaniac on the matter of an irresistible itch at imitating other folks' writing – which he did only too adroitly as the Mercantile Firm which employed him found by experience. The signatures in the present case are very like indeed – although with – to my eye – a discernible difference, – a slight one, certainly. He was well acquainted with the persons supposed to have written on the fly-leaf, and had letters &c; from each of them. My own hand-writing has, no doubt, changed somewhat in the course of years; and, at the time when I knew Powell, much resembled what you see intended for it..."); and telling Slater that Powell "was forced to fly the country, thereby avoiding the punishment he richly deserved" and that "he may still be alive for aught I know"; Browning then goes on to denounce Powell's account of EBB [in Living Authors of England (1849)] ("...This precious farrago was referred to, in the Academy, a short while since, as containing 'notable information respecting my wife which deserved the notice it had not found in the article just out in the new Biographical Dictionary' [the Dictionary of National Biography, 1886]: the fact being that he never saw her in his life, nor had any other means of informing himself than by what he could glean from her correspondence with Mr Horne; on purely literary subjects"; going on to recount the dealings he and Dickens had with him after he was exposed: "Dickens exposed the poor fellow at the time – myself was abroad. Thus you have all I can well communicate on a disagreeable subject. By the way, the last letter I ever received from Powell, with whom I had ceased to hold intercourse, was impudently written throughout as if by the brother of Dickens; Henry, long since dead – that is, since that time"; autograph envelope ("Walter B. Slater, Esq"), 4 pages, on blue-grey writing paper, engraved address, 8vo, Warwick Crescent, 6 November 1886
Bonhams
May. 23, 2012
BROWNING (ROBERT)
Est: £300 - £400
The Statue and the Bust, booklabel of Oscar Sutro (1874-1935, collector and oil magnate) and inserted manuscript catalogue card (showing he bought it from Goodspeed's for $65, later pencil price of $20, no copy at auction since the Pariser sale, 1967), loose, in the original 2 gatherings, full brown morocco case by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, [Todd 85f], 8vo, Edward Moxon, 1855 [Richard Clay, c.1890]
Bonhams
May. 23, 2012
BROWNING (ROBERT)
Est: £150 - £300
Ferishtah's Fancies, first edition, forged inscription from Browning to W.G.F. Walls, December 1884 on flyleaf, original cloth, scuffed, 1884; Pauline... edited by Thomas J. Wise, original boards, slightly worn, a copy of Buxton Forman's bookplate pasted in, 1886--FURNIVAL (FREDERICK J.) A Bibliography of Robert Browning... second edition, inscribed by Furnival to Browning, original wrappers, worn, Browning Society, 1882; and 5 others including a second copy of the last item with 2 autograph letters from Furnvial inserted, 8vo and 4to (8)
Bonhams
May. 23, 2012
BROWNING (ROBERT)
Est: £200 - £400
Gold Hair; a Legend of Pornic, bookplate of Walter Thomas Wallace (of South Orange, N.J., who also owned the Folger copy of 'Aeropagitica', this copy bought from Seven Gables for $15), brown morocco by Rivière, gilt inner dentelles, without the plain wrappers found only in the Ashley copy [Todd 86f], 8vo, W. Clowes and Sons, 1864 [Richard Clay, c.1890]
Bonhams
May. 23, 2012
BROWNING (ROBERT)
Est: £600 - £800
Autograph letter signed ("R Browning"), to "My dear Powell", asking him to pay Smith & Elder "on account of Mr Fearne, the subscription-money for that same book I am to receive" ("...Otherwise, all parties will think I take its title for 'Subscription & Repentance' – whereas, in spite of our fun yesterday, I shall be really glad to have my copy, & reimburse you when next you 'come across' Yours ever truly..."); with a postscript asking when he should call for it and "'Coningsby'!!!", one page, paper manufacturer's Prince of Wales feathers blindstamp, integral blank (folded diagonally, seemingly for delivery), docketed "Poet –", traces of mounting on blank and a thin patch, slight browning and creasing, 8vo, "Monday Morning" [?May 1844]
Bonhams
May. 23, 2012
BROWNING (ROBERT)
Est: £200 - £300
Cleon, loose in the original 3 gatherings, cloth case, without the plain drab wrappers (known only in the W.B. Slater and Ashley copies), this copy bought from Seven Gables for $6, no copy at auction since the Pariser sale in 1967 [Todd 84f], 8vo, Edward Moxon, 1855 [Richard Clay, c.1890]
Bonhams
May. 23, 2012
BROWNING (ROBERT)
Est: £150 - £200
Sordello, FIRST EDITION, Alfred Forman's copy, with his signature on flyleaf, publisher's green cloth, printed label slightly chipped, bookplate removed, 1840--CAINE (T.H.) Sonnets of Three Centuries, critical sonnet by H.B. Forman tipped-in at beginning ("A quite too utter quntessential book!... But why the devil does not Oscar Wilde/Defile a book already so defiled?"), signature of Maria Forman, H.B. Forman's mother, publisher's cloth, slightly worn, 1882; and 2 others, including another Browning with Alfred's initials, 8vo and 4to (4)
Bonhams
May. 23, 2012
BROWNING (ROBERT)
Est: £100 - £200
Pauline... Reprint of the Original Edition of 1833. Edited by Thomas J. Wise, original boards, printed label [Todd 109a], 1886, 5 copies--FORMAN (HARRY BUXTON) Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Her Scarcer Books, [Todd 71d, 30 copies], Privately Printed, 1896, 2 copies, one in original boards, the other in loose sheets, in a cloth case--Browning Centenary, 2 leaves, first with illustration by Walter Crane, the invitation addressed to John [sic] J. Wise and a proof of his bookplate on tissue inserted, 1912; and a small group of others, mostly Browning Society, but including loose sheets of Wise's Bibliography and the reprint of 'The Battle of Marathon' (Todd 70e), 8vo (quantity)
Bonhams
May. 23, 2012
BROWNING (ROBERT)
Est: £100 - £200
Jocoseria... second edition, letter gifting the book from H.B. Forman to his brother Alfred (1902, St. Christopher's North Berwick) inserted, signature of Alma Murray (Alfred's wife), original cloth, slightly worn, 1883--GOLDSMITH (OLIVER) The Comedies... illustrated by Chris Hammond, inscribed by the illustrator to Alma [Murray], cloth, 1896--[FORMAN (MAURICE BUXTON)] John Keats and his Family, limited to 100 copies, inscribed by the author to Elsa Forman (Alfred and Alma's only child) with a long note about Alice Keats, Edinburgh, 1933; and 11 others, mostly from Elsa's library, 8vo and 4to (14)
Bonhams
Jun. 22, 2011
BROWNING, ROBERT.
Est: $600 - $900
2 Autograph Letters Signed ("Robert Browning"), 2 pp, small 8vo, [London], December 29, 1871 and June 17, 1880, to Lady Thompson and Mr. Ingram, on various stationeries, later letter with offset and sunning from original frame, earlier letter with left margin rough. In the later letter, Browning thanks his correspondent for the gift of a volume of Poe's works: "I find myself still more indebted to you for having cleared away so much misapprehension of the facts concerning Poe as I could not but lie under till such a truly pious work of rehabilitation should appear as this one." Provenance: Estate of Charles Williamson and Tucker Fleming.
Bonhams
Jun. 19, 2011
BROWNING, ROBERT.
Est: $200 - $300
Autograph Envelope Initialed ("R.B."), 2 3/4 by 4 inches, London, postmarked December 15, 1869, to Lady Thompson, matted and framed.
Bonhams
Apr. 16, 2010
Browning, Robert: Pied Piper of Hamelin
Est: €120 - €180
Browning, Robert. The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway. 64 S. Mit 35 farbigen Illustrationen. 25,5 x 22,5 cm. Illustr. OHleinenband. London, G. Routledge and Sons, o. J. , (1888). Schuster 157, 1a. Osborne Coll. I, 52/53. Seltene erste Ausgabe in einem wohlerhaltenen Exemplar.
Galerie Bassenge
Feb. 04, 2009
Browning, Robert
Est: £200 - £300
Browning, Robert Collection of seven first editions, and 1 other: Balaustion's Adventure, Smith, Elder & Co., 1871, upper hinge partially split; Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, saviour of society, 1871, hinges fragile; Dramatic Idyls, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1879; Dramatic Idyls. Second series, Smith, Elder & Co, 1880; Jocoseria, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1883; Parleyings with certain people of importance in their day, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1887; Asolando: Fancies and Facts, Smith, Elder & Co., 1890. First editions, original cloth bindings, some foxing, some covers slightly worn, in foldinc cloth chemises; [and] The Poems of Matthew Arnold 1840-1867. London: 1913, calf gilt by Brentano's; 8vo (8)
Lyon & Turnbull
Jun. 17, 2007
BROWNING ROBERT
Est: $75 - $100
1522. ROBERT BROWNING (1812-1889) English poet and playwright, author of The Ring and the Book, and Love Among the Ruins. Bold, full signature, mounted. $75-100
Alexander Historical Auctions LLC
Dec. 07, 2006
BROWNING, ROBERT.
Est: £1,000 - £1,500
THE RING AND THE BOOK. LONDON: SMITH, ELDER AND CO., 1868-69 8vo, 4 volumes, first edition, from the library of george eliot, with the Lewes Sale book-label in volume 1, original dark-green cloth, spines lettered in gilt, brown endpapers, occasional splitting between gatherings at gutter, minor spotting to endpapers and title of volumes 1 and 3, hinges of volume 1 and 2 weak, covers very slightly worn, extremities bumped PROVENANCE The library of George Eliot (book-label of Lewes Sale, 1923, on front pastedown of volume 1) LITERATURE Wise 12; Wise A Browning Library pp.27-28; William Baker, The George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Library (1977) NOTE an unrecorded volume from george eliot's library After George Eliot's death in 1880, her library, incorporating that of G.H. Lewes (d.1878), came into the possession of his eldest son Charles Lee Lewes. In 1882 he gave some 2,406 of the books to Dr Williams's Library, London. Of the residue, about 1,200 books were sold by Charles's widow, Gertrude, by Messrs Foster of 54 Pall Mall (chiefly in job lots) on 15 May 1923 and a further sixty books by Sotheby's on 17 June 1923. No specific mention is made of the present volume, although it is interesting to note that Sotheby's lot 516 was Browning's inscribed copy of Dramatis Personae presented to George Eliot, and lot 515 a copy of E.B. Browning's Aurora Leigh inscribed by John Ruskin.
Sotheby's
Mar. 28, 2006
BROWNING (ROBERT)
Est: -
Autograph letter signed ("Robert Browning"), to the Duchess of St Albans, declining an invitation, one page, on blind-stamped armorial paper, integral blank, 8vo, 19 Warwick Crescent, 25 January 1881
Bonhams
Feb. 08, 2006
Browning, Robert
Est: -
Browning, Robert The Pied Piper of Hamelin. London: Harry Quilter, 1898, small folio, number 28 of 100 copies on vellum, edition de-luxe, ornamented by Mary Quilter, original calf gilt extra with two inset repoussé silver panels, two colour plates, one on silk, binding well rubbed, hinges cracked, corners bumped
Lyon & Turnbull
Jun. 05, 2005
BROWNING, ROBERT
Est: $150 - $200
1045. ROBERT BROWNING (1812-1889) English poet and playwright, author of "The Ring and the Book", and "Love Among the Ruins". The top portion of an A.L.S., 4pp. 12mo (formerly), Siena, Aug. 15, 1859 to Dr. Grisanowski. discussing his wife's continued bad health. Sold primarily for signature value.$150-200
Alexander Historical Auctions LLC
Mar. 23, 2005
BROWNING, ROBERT.
Est: £1,500 - £2,000
The Ring and The Book. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1868-69 Condition Note: first edition, 4 volumes, 8vo (170 x 105mm.), from the library of george eliot, with the Lewes Sale book-label in volume 1, original dark-green cloth, spines lettered in gilt, brown endpapers, occasional splitting between gatherings at gutter, minor spotting to endpapers and title of volumes 1 and 3, hinges of volume 1 and 2 weak, covers very slightly worn, extremities bumped PROVENANCE The library of George Eliot (book-label of Lewes Sale, 1923, on front pastedown of volume 1) LITERATURE AND REFERENCES Wise 12; Wise A Browning Library pp.27-28; William Baker, The George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Library (1977) CATALOGUE NOTE an unrecorded volume from george eliot's library After George Eliot's death in 1880, her library, incorporating that of G.H. Lewes (d.1878), came into the possession of his eldest son Charles Lee Lewes. In 1882 he gave some 2,406 of the books to Dr Williams's Library, London. Of the residue, about 1,200 books were sold by Charles's widow, Gertrude, by Messrs Foster of 54 Pall Mall (chiefly in job lots) on 15 May 1923 and a further sixty books by Sotheby's on 17 June 1923. No specific mention is made of the present volume, although it is interesting to note that Sotheby's lot 516 was Browning's inscribed copy of Dramatis Personae presented to George Eliot, and lot 515 a copy of E.B. Browning's Aurora Leigh inscribed by John Ruskin.
Sotheby's
Feb. 20, 2005
Robert Browning,
Est: $100 - $200
Robert Browning, autograph letter signed, octavo, ten lines, July 28, 1881.
Hindman
Jan. 22, 2005
Browning, Robert
Est: $100 - $150
A History of Golf, The Royal & Ancient Game... 1st edition, frontispiece, illustrated with colour & black & white plates, green cloth cover, gilt lettering to spine, original dust jacket Dutton & Co., New York, 1955 Ex Libris Joseph S. F. Murdoch
Lyon & Turnbull
Jan. 22, 2005
Browning, Robert
Est: $100 - $150
A History of Golf, The Royal & Ancient Game... 1st edition, frontispiece, illustrated with colour & black and white plates, green cloth cover, lettering to spine, E.P. Dutton & Co., New York, 1955
Lyon & Turnbull
Jul. 12, 2004
BROWNING, Robert
Est: £120 - £150
Browning, Robert A History of Golf, the Royal and Ancient Game... 1st edition, illustrated with forty plates from paintings, facsimiles, engravings, etc., eight of which are colour, green cloth cover, gilt lettering to spine, colour pictorial dust jacket, J. M. Dent & Sons, London, 1955 and Super-Golf... 1st edition, illus., green cloth cover, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, London, 1919 (2)
Lyon & Turnbull
May. 13, 2004
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Est: $120 - $180
Color illustrations by Kate Greenaway, some full-page. 9 1/2 x8 1/4, cloth-backed pictorial boards, blue endpapers. First Edition, Second State. Second state, without copyright statement on title verso, but with blue endpapers. Bookplate of Ethel McLeod, portrait of Greenaway pasted in at back. Schuster & Engen 157.1b.
PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers
Mar. 03, 2004
BROWNING, Robert (1782-1866, father of the poet). A collection of fifty-eight sketches (portraits
Est: £3,000 - £5,000
BROWNING, Robert (1782-1866, father of the poet). A collection of fifty-eight sketches (portraits or caricatures) including 51 in pen and ink, heightened with watercolour, illustrating three short tales, with explanatory dialogue and narrative written below in autograph; and seven portraits in pencil without text, the sketches measuring approximately 155 x 115 mm, mounted on the numbered leaves of an album, oblong 4to, blanks, contemporary leather-backed boards; in a black morocco case. Provenance: purchased from James F. Drake, New York, Woodin Sale, 2 December 1941, lot 73, $20. The illustrated stories include: 'The Tragedy', 12 pages; 'The Swindlers', 20 pages; and 'The Enquiry', 17 pages, the last concerning a group of unprincipled tavern characters taken in by an apparently gullible young man who at the end turns out to be a thief. The subjects of the pencil portraits include 'Barabbas', the Brownings' housekeeper, caricatures of Keats and Dr Johnson, and three others. Robert Browning senior was an aimiable and affectionate parent, and the caricatures may have been intended for the entertainment of his children. In his youth, after an unhappy period administering a plantation in St Kitts, he had hoped to pursue his interest in painting, but his father refused to subsidise him. He exercised his natural ability as a caricaturist in the style of Gillray or Cruikshank, while his personal taste was for Dutch genre paintings. After Elizabeth's death, Robert and Pen Browning often passed the summer with Robert's father, in France.
Christie's
Nov. 20, 2003
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Est: $80 - $120
48 pp. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway with color frontispiece and text illustrations, a number full-page. 9 3/4 x8 1/2, brown cloth-backed color pictorial boards. Early edition of a Kate Greenaway favorite.
PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers
Jul. 13, 2003
BROWNING, Robert
Est: £100 - £150
BROWNING, Robert A history of golf, The Royal and Ancient Game, 1st edition, colour frontis., colour plates., publishers green cloth, London, Dent & Sons, 1955 Estimate £ 100-150
Lyon & Turnbull