BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT. POEMS.New York: C. S. Francis, 1857. Three volumes. (the first two volumes are numbered, the third has the title "Aurora Leigh" -- and was issued in the same year as its British first edition). An early and sought after American edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, published during her lifetime. ("Sonnets from the Portuguese" appears on pp. 285-307 of the second volume -- just seven years after its first appearance in a book had been published in London). Publisher's cloth, minor wear and splits to the joints and edges. Offered with Tennyson, Alfred. Poetical Works. Boston: Ticknor, 1856. In a similar publisher's cloth binding. The group of four.
