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"An Essay on Mind, with Other Poems" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. James Duncan, 1826 first UK edition first issue with "found" on page 75, line 15, and no misalignment on pages 12, 24 & 149, without half title (as issued) and publisher's catalogue, slight soiling to title and in margins, tall untrimmed copy in green calf gilt by Riviere, gilt panelled spine with brown morocco labels and floral tools, inner gilt dentelles, t.e.g. First issue of the twenty-year-old poet's second book, written three years earlier. Although it did not receive much critical attention at the time, "the essays allow Browning to demonstrate her status as a highly educated, ambitious female writer from the very beginning of her career" (Lehigh University website, 'Jane Austen & the Rise of Feminism: Women Writers As Agents of Change', online exhibition). This was her first published work, preceded only by the privately printed The Battle of Marathon. Seller Inventory # ABE-1685990223279
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