Price: £1,600
Subject: Literature
Published Date: 1872
Stock Number: 65548
Browning (Robert)
Fifine at the Fair.
Description: 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'
Publication Details: Smith, Elder and Co., 1872
Notes: 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.
Bibliography: (Wise p. 31)
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