THE POETICAL WORKS

17 volumes. First of th8voe Edition and the most complete of the Editions of Browning's Writings. This set, one of 250 copies only, a large paper copy, printed on handmade paper, and specially bound. With all engraved illustrations as called for, collated complete. Tall 8vo, bound by Riviere and Son in very handsome three-quarter crushed blue-green morocco over marbled paper covered boards. The backs with raised bands ruled in blind, two compartments lettered in gilt, end-leaves of marbled paper to match the covers, top edge gilt. A very attractive set in handsome Rivere bindings, the text-blocks all appearing essentially pristine and the bindings with very little evidence of wear or age but for the front cover to Vol. I which is near to detaching.

Edizione: large paper copy, limited and the best of the collected editions of browning's work. an appealing set of the writings by this great poet of 19th century england. the first collected edition of browning's poems appeared in two volumes in 1849, but consisted only of "bells and pomegranates" and "paracelsus". although the present is called the"third" edition (presumably in deference to a selection of browning's work edited by john forster and barry cornwall and published by chapman and hall in the previous year, although dated 1863 on the title), it is in fact only the second, and the first to attain any semblance of completeness. the three volumes are divided into "lyrics, romances, men, and women" (a volume formed by combining the "dramatic romances and lyrics" of the 1849 edition with the poems of "men and women" published in 1855); "tragedies and other plays"; and "paracelsus, christmas eve and easter day, sordello". this set represents the most complete edition of all of robert browning's work, and is printed in its most beautiful style, on large and special hand made paper.