“He Giveth His Beloved Sleep”

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“He Giveth His Beloved Sleep”, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Illustrated by Miss L. B. Humphrey, engraved by Andrew. New York: Lee and Shepard, 1882, ©1880.

This is a fully-illustrated gift book of Mrs Browning’s poem “The Sleep.” The project contains probably the least amount of text I’ve ever done, but the illustrations are stunning.

Frontispiece

(See nice versions of the scans on Vaguery’s Flickr stream.)

This is also one of the oldest clearances I have. I’m slowly working my way through the pile; some are going through Distributed Proofreaders, some (like this small book) are not. They’ll all be online eventually…

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