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BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett (1806?1861). Poems Before Congr...

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BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett (1806?1861). Poems Before Congress. London: Chapman and Hall, 1860. 8vo. Half?title, 32 pp. publisher?s catalogue at end dated February 1860. Original blind?decorated red cloth lettered in gilt, brown coated endpapers (spine darkened, hinges weak); morocco?backed folding box (joints rubbed). FIRST EDITION of this collection of poems including the antislavery poem ?A Curse for a Nation? that had earlier been published in an abolitionist journal in Boston.