Fine Binding Browning Robert (1 results)

Later edition. Two volumes in one. Octavo ( 190mm. ) Pp. xvi, 748 ; vii, 886. All edges gilt. Both volumes with a half title. Tissue guarded portrait frontispieces of the author in both volumes, Vol. 1 with an engraving of Browning as a young man, Vol. 2 from a photograph late in the poet's life. Printed on india paper. Contents clean and bright and retaining the intergral brown silk page marker. Includes indexes. "A chronological list of Robert Browning's poems and plays": v.2, pp. 775-778. Editor's note signed: Augustine Birrell. The text includes - Vol 1. Pauline: a fragment of a confession. Paracelsus. Strafford: a tragedy. Sordello. Pippa passes: a drama. King Victor and King Charles: a tragedy. Dramatic lyrics. The return of the Druses: a tragedy. A blot in the 'scutcheon: a tragedy. Colombe's birthday: a play. Dramatic romances. Luria: a tragedy. A soul's tragedy. Christmas-eve and Easter-day. Men and women. In a balcony. Dramatic personae. Balaustion's adventure. Aristophanes' apology. -- Vol. 2. The ring and the book. Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, saviour of society. Fifine at the fair. Red cotton night-cap country, or Turf and towers. The inn album. Pacchiarotto, and how he worked in distemper, et cetera. The Agamemnon of Aeschylus. La Saisiaz. The two poets of Croisic. Dramatic idyls: first series. Dramatic idyls: second series. Jocoseria. Ferishtah's fancies. Parleyings with certain people of importance in their day. Asolando: fancies and facts.Bound by Hatchards in lightish brown morocco, the upper cover with a double fillet outer frame enclosing a floral design of stems and flowers entwined around an oboe (?), the lower cover with a double fillet outer frame. The spine with two raised bands and the central panel of stems and intertwined bells. Marbled endpapers. An attractive stamped binding in very good condition.