Selections from The Poetical Works of Robert Browning. From the Sixth London Edition. (First and Second Series)

Selections from The Poetical Works of Robert Browning. From the Sixth London Edition. (First and Second Series)

Author: Browning, Robert (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889)

8vo.(6.25" x 9.25")1886. Browning, Robert. New York. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. Half red polished leather with corners, single blindstamp rule to all leather edges, over marbled boards. Spine with five gilt decorated raised bands, gilt title/author to double gilt rule bordered brown leather to second compartment, double gilt rule frames with fancy gilt corners and a single gilt floral device centered to each other compartment.All edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Armorial bookplate of D. Mr. Kay Frost to front pastedown. Small chip from center of first free endpaper leaving a white spot. Engraved frontispiece of Burns with facsimile signature, every text page with line and dart rule framing pages. Illustrated with a dozen+ full page illustrations. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed, covers scuffed and rubbed, head and foot of spine rubbed with loss of color, tiny chips lacking to foot. Leather scuffed on covers, mostly to edges.

From Wiki: Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets. He was noted for irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings and challenging vocabulary and syntax. His early long poems Pauline (1833) and Paracelsus (1835) were acclaimed, but his reputation dwindled for a time – his 1840 poem Sordello was seen as wilfully obscure – and took over a decade to recover, by which time he had moved from Shelleyan forms to a more personal style. In 1846, he 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 (1868–1869) made him a leading poet. By his death in 1889, he was seen as a sage and philosopher-poet who had fed into Victorian social and political discourse. Societies for studying his work survived in Britain and the US into the 20th century.

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