English poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning pursued their courtship entirely in secret, yet today their words of love are among the most famous and romantic ever written.
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Our limited-edition volume reproduces a selection of their letters, along with Elizabeth’s “How Do I Love Thee” sonnet and Robert’s poem, “The Last Ride Together”. The book is letterpress-printed and hand-bound in cloth and paste-paper that was made especially for the edition. It includes archival pigment-print facsimile portraits of both Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. The book is presented in a cloth and paste-paper slip case, measures 8 1/8″ x 5 5/8″, and has 68 pages.
Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was one of the foremost Victorian poets and playwrights. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was an English poet known for the soc