*Nominally, this is the Seventh edition, but actually the first complete edition of her works.
BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett, Poetical
Works. Seventh Edition*, London, Chapman& Hall,
1866. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION*. 5 volumes, 8vo, portrait in vol. I, original
green cloth.
The following shows how the 7th edition is actually the 1st complete edition of her works, published 5 years after her death.
1844: Poems London: Edward Moxon
1850: Poems "New Edition" 2 vols. (Rev. of 1844 ed.) London: Chapman & Hall
1853: Poems 3d edition 2 vols. London: Chapman & Hall
1856: Poems 4th edition 3 vols. London: Chapman & Hall
1856: Aurora Leigh. London: Chapman & Hall
1861 (Elizabeth dies).
1862: Poems. 5th edition 3 vols. London: Chapman & Hall
1864: Poems 6th edition 4 vols. London: Chapman & Hall
1866: Poetical Works. 7th edition* 5 vols. London: Chapman & Hall
* Although numbered “Seventh
Edition,” this is the first complete edition of her collected
works. (Ref: Wise, Thomas, Ashley Library, I. p.96.)
ALL FIVE VOLUMES WILL COME WITH PROTECTIVE ARCHIVAL QUALITY CLEAR MYLAR DUST JACKETS.