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By changing the areas of the plate that are exposed and the length of time the plate is submerged in the acid bath, the engraver can obtain fine and varying shades of gray that closely resemble watercolor washes.

Aquatint Copperplate process by which the plate is “bitten” by exposure to acid.

An exceptionally good copy, handsomely bound. It is my privilege to visit with them every day, and to be in their company” ( New York Times).Ī few spots of soiling to interior, tiny tear to tissue guard, joints expertly reinforced. ‘The most important thing I can say to you about these books is that I never take them for granted? I am nothing more than their temporary keeper. They were all on open shelves in his library, to be lived with, touched and enjoyed.

Berland kept none of his books behind glass to be venerated. Among his 530 treasures were one copy of each of the four Shakespeare folios. Booklabel of internationally recognized bibliophile and collector of rare manuscripts Abel E. The title, chosen to disguise the personal nature of the poems by suggesting that they were a translation, was a secret reference for the Brownings to his nickname for her, ‘The Portuguese,’ based on her poem ‘Catarina to Camoens,’ which Browning particularly admired and which portrayed a Portuguese woman’s devotion to her poet lover” (Drabble, 920). Written as a gift for her husband, Sonnets from the Portuguese “describes the growth and development of her love for Robert Browning, at first hesitating to involve him in her sorrowful invalid life, then yielding to gradual conviction of his love for her, and finally rapturous in late-born happiness.

Handsomely bound copy of Browning’s renowned sonnet sequence, with numerous beautiful illustrations by Margaret Armstrong, including lovely tissue-guarded frontispiece vignette. Square octavo, contemporary three-quarter blue morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, all edges gilt.

“HOW DO I LOVE THEE? LET ME COUNT THE WAYS”: BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE, THE ABEL E.