BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT; LEESON, ADELAIDE HANSCOM (PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS) — Sonnets from the Portuguese
New York, Dodge Publishing Company. 1916. Green Cloth, 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book, Unpaginated. Photographic illustrations by Adelaide Hanscom Leeson.Frontispiece sepia photogravure plate and 18 sepia photogravure plates, each mounted on tipped-in brown background art paper with tissue overleaf opposite. (All present). A collection of 44 love sonnets written during Elizabeth Barrett Browning"s courtship with Robert Browning.This copy has photogravure illustrations by the pioneering American photographer and artist Adelaide Hanscom Leeson. Name blindstamped on front endpaper, a little fading at the bottom of the covers. Good.