Fifine at the Fair.

Fifine at the Fair.

Publication details: Smith, Elder and Co.,1872,

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The poem deals with conjugal inconstancy and was the cause of a rupture in Browning's friendship with Rossetti, as the latter saw it as a satire of him.Wise's copy was inscribed to Mrs. Benzon on June 3rd.

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FIRST EDITION, textblock strained at centre, pp. xii, 171, foolscap 8vo, original brown cloth, borders on sides blocked in black, spine gilt lettered, ends of spine bumped, a very good copy, inscribed on the half-title 'Reuben Browning Esq from his affectionately ever RB, June 7. '72'

Bibliography: (Wise p. 31)