Mrs. Browning’s Birthday Book (1882) I Elizabeth Barrett Browning l Illustrated Victorian Gift Book / Year Book

An 1882 edition of Mrs. Browning’s Birthday Book, devoted to selections from the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and edited by R. H. Stoddard.

Published by James Miller (New York), this Victorian birthday book arranges Browning’s poetry by calendar date, pairing daily excerpts with notable births and deaths in literary and historical record. Each page reflects the refined gift-book sensibility of the late 19th century.

Included are an engraved frontispiece with tissue guards, additional engravings within with tissue guards and decorative engraved vignettes. 

Bound in decorative cloth with gilt portrait medallion and ornamental stamping, rubbing/wear at corners and spine ends, binding secure, pages clean.

Size: 4” x 5 1/2”

A beautifully scaled Victorian poetic keepsake celebrating one of the 19th century’s most significant women writers.