Ring Book by Robert Browning, Signed (17 results)

Hard Cover with Slipcase. Condition: Fine-. Limited Edition. Two hardcovers with red leather spine with gilt lettering; boards covered in gray paper with red lettering and decorations; limited edition 177/1500; signed by Carl Schultheiss. Books in fine minus condition with slight fading and scuffing to spines; otherwise excellent. Slipcase in very good condition with a bit of scuffing and spotting. Might cost extra for shipping priority or international. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Signed by Illustrator(s). Book.

Half-Leather. Condition: Very Good. Schultheiss, Carl (illustrator). Limited/Numbered. Illus. by Carl Schultheiss, and signed by him, 386 of 1500 copies. Two volumes, large books, red leather spine, decorated boards, light wear to spine edges of Vol. I, a small spot at center front of Vol. II. Near Very Good set. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Carl Schultheiss (illustrator). Limited edition. Two volume set in felt-lined slipcase. 26 x 19 cm. 690pp. Bound in quarter red leather with gilt spine lettering and blue-grey paper over boards. This set is limited to 1500 copies of which this is set #684 signed by the engraver Carl Schultheiss on the colophon page in volume 2. Spines are faded and a bit rubbed. Fading to edges of slipcase.

Hardcover. Carl Schultheiss (illustrator). First Edition. Two quarto (7-1/3" x 10") volumes bound in half red sheepskin leather and boards decorated with Italian hand-made paper. Printed by Saul and Lillian Marks at the Plantin Press. Copy #981 of 1500 illustrated with ORIGINAL COPPER ETCHINGS by Carl Schultheiss and SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Some rubbing to the spine, mostly at the tips. Very Good in a Good slipcase with some fraying.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Foreword by William Lyon Phelps. Afterword by Clayton Hamilton. Small octavo. 185, [1] ads pp. Orange cloth stamped in gold. Frontispiece portrait of Walter Hampden, who directed the production, and played the title role, Caponsacchi. Few tiny spots of soiling on front cover, a few small and light tidy penciled notes in text, easily erasable, else a near fine, bright copy, with the text fresh and clean, lacking the dust jacket. Inscribed by lead actor and director Walter Hampden on the front flyleaf, in the year of publication: "With affectionate greetings to Sally and Harold, Walter, March 30, 1927.".

Hardcover. Carl Schultheiss (illustrator). Two quarto (7-1/3" x 10") volumes bound in half red sheepskin leather and boards decorated with Italian hand-made paper. Printed by Saul and Lillian Marks at the Plantin Press. Copy #751 of 1500 llustrated with ORIGINAL COPPER ETCHINGS by Carl Schultheiss and SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Some rubbing and scratching to spine. Very Good in an intact, Very Good slipcase.

Scultheiss, Carl. One of 1500 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator. Illustrated with Engravings by Carl Schultheiss. 2 vols. 8vo. Printed at The Plantin Press, with Hand-Colored Illustrations. Quarter red sheepskin with printed Fabriano paper-covered boards, gilt lettering on spine, fore-edge untrimmed. Spines a trifle rubbed, else about fine in slipcase Illustrated with Engravings by Carl Schultheiss. 2 vols. 8vo One of 1500 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator. Signed.

Hardcover. Carl Schultheiss (illustrator). Two quarto (7-1/3" x 10") volumes bound in half red sheepskin leather and boards decorated with Italian hand-made paper. Printed by Saul and Lillian Marks at the Plantin Press. Copy #331 of 1500 llustrated with ORIGINAL COPPER ETCHINGS by Carl Schultheiss and SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Minor wear and fading to spine. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Schultheiss, Carl (illustrator). 2 volumes in very good condition. Volume 1: 340 pages. Volume 2: pages number 343 to 690. Pages are clean and unmarked with black and white plates throughout. SIGNED on the colophon in the second volume by the illustrator. Limited # 1162/1500. Some notes from the publisher loosely included. Page edges are lightly stained on the tail edge of volume 2. Quarterbound in red leather and blue-grey paper with gilt titles on the spine and red titles on the boards. Some red stains on the upper board of volume 2. Both volumes, lightly worn around the edges and spine. Spines are lightly scuffed. Stored in black cloth-covered, red velvet-lined slipcase with a label on the spine. . Lightly worn and scuffed. Label is darkened and worn. Faded on the spine. VG+. Signed by Author(s). Book.

hardcover. Condition: very good. Carl Schultheiss (illustrator). Limited. With an introduction by Edward Dowden. Illustrated with Engravings by Carl Schultheiss. 16 copper engravings, title in red and black. 2 vols. 4to, leather-backed boards; (spine ends slightly rubbed). Los Angeles: The Limited Editions Club, 1949. One of 1500 copies, signed by the illustrator.

Hardcover. Carl Schultheiss (illustrator). First Edition. Two quarto (7-1/3" x 10") volumes bound in half red sheepskin leather and boards decorated with Italian hand-made paper. Printed by Saul and Lillian Marks at the Plantin Press. Copy #325 of 1500 llustrated with ORIGINAL COPPER ETCHINGS by Carl Schultheiss and SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. Touch of scuffing to spines. About Fine in a Fine slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. SIGNED BY SCHULTHEISS (ILLUSTRATOR); #1060/1500; 2 VOLS VERY GOOD. Signed by Author(s).

Number 518 of 1500 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator. Illustrated with Original Copper Engravings by Carl Schultheiss. 2 vols. 8vo. Quarter red sheepskin with printed Fabriano paper-covered boards, gilt lettering on spine, fore-edge untrimmed. Spines ever so slightly rubbed, else very fine in original slipcase Illustrated with Original Copper Engravings by Carl Schultheiss. 2 vols. 8vo Number 518 of 1500 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator. Signed.

First edition of Robert Browning's greatest work. Octodecimo, four volumes, contemporary tree calf bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spines in six compartments within gilt raised bands, gilt ruling to boards, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the second free endpaper, "Robert Browning wishes he had been privileged to give this work to his friends. Nov. 30. '75." The recipient, George Craik was a partner in Macmillan and Co., who married author Dinah Maria Mulock in 1864. Mulock was a friend and correspondent of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and dedicated her novel 'The Head of the Family' to Elizabeth. In very good condition with rubbing to the extremities, splitting to the hinges of volume four, and skillful rebacking to preserve the original spines of each volume. From the library of noted collector William A. Strutz with his small bookplate to the pastedown, with an additional ownership plate from George Lillie Craik. Housed in a custom folding chemise and half morocco slipcase. Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets. He was noted for irony, characterization, dark humor, social commentary, historical settings and challenging vocabulary and syntax. His career began well â" the long poems Pauline (1833) and Paracelsus (1835) were acclaimed â" but his reputation fell back for a time â" his 1840 poem Sordello was seen as wilfully obscure â" and took over a decade to recover, by which time he had moved from Shelleyan forms to a more personal style. In 1846 Browning married fellow poet Elizabeth Barrett and moved to Italy. By her death in 1861 he had published the collection Men and Women (1855). His Dramatis Personae (1864) and book-length epic poem The Ring and the Book made him a leading poet.

SCHULTHEISS, Carl (illustrator). BROWNING, Robert. The Ring and the Book. With an Introduction by Edward Dowden. Illustrated With Engravings by Carl Schultheiss. Two vols. 4to. Orig. half morocco and boards in publisher's slipcase. Los Angeles: Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club at the Plantin Press, 1949. Limited to 1,500 copies signed by the artist. Signed.

London 1868-1869. 7 x 4", cloth, 245, 251, 249; 235 p, bookplates, inner hinges cracked, v. 1 text block detached, short ink inscriptions, corners bumped, covers darkened. FIRST EDITION, Mixed Set, Roman Numeral on v. 3 spine only.

4 vols. Small 8vo. Second edition. Second edition. 4 vols. Small 8vo. Inscribed by Browning to Ernest Benzon on the first flyleaf, "Ernst Benzon Esq, from his very affectionately Robert Browning." German-born Ernst Benzon, a partner in the steel manufacture Vickers Sons & Company, was a patron or friend of Browning and others, including Thackeray, Wilkie Collins, Felix Mendelssohn and George Eliot. Browning stayed with the Benzons in Little Milton, their Scottish estate in the hills above Loch Tummel, and it is there in 1869 that he wrote the long poem Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau. The present volumes were likely presented by Browning in appreciation. Mrs. Benzon later gave Browning a gift of £1,860 worth of railway stock. Barnes RB 19; Sterling 89; Tinker 425; Wise, Browning pp. 27-28; Ashley I, 120-121 Full olive morocco gilt, a.e.g., by Bedford. Front joint of vol. I repaired, else fine. In custom cloth slipcase. Bookplate of William Harris Arnold.