Browning Robert Poet (12 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 95 pages. Macdonald Emslie "Codes of Love and Class Distinctions" / I R Browning "Coriolanus: Boy of Tears" / Ronald Hayman "Robert Graves" / Donald Davie "The Poet-Scholar [poem]". (U.P.).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Condition: (see pics.) Red cloth boards with gilded printing to the spine. Spine sunned a little. Unknown date, assume around 1910. Pocket-sized. A nice-to-hold retro copy of the book. Full page black and white illustrations throughout the book. Synopsis: 500 plus pages of a collection of verse displaying Robert Browning's thematic concern with art and love.…

Hard Back. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1884 English text.Small Dark green H/b with gilt outline to front board gilt titles to spine.326pp.170x120mm.Copyright Edition. First title, beneath Lyrics heading, is Cavalier Tunes, The plays are A Drama, Pippa Passes & A Tragedy , A Blot in the 'Scutcheon. Another title then is From Paracelsus; followed by Romances.[ Book VG throughout in Good outer boards. no inscsp., no annotation , paper creamed over time, edges tanned.Boards show pale handling of soiling/stains /fade mark. Please see our image of the actual book offered for sale.…

Condition: Very Good. Publisher's original brown suede cloth covers, gilt lettering to spine. 16mo 5" x 4" 118 pp. Each page framed with pink designed border. In Very Good clean and tidy condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. NINETEENTH CENTURY.

Limp back binding in publisher's original full burgundy leather covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back and front, radial corners, all page edges gilt, duck egg blue and gilt marble lining papers. 16mo. 5¼'' x 4''. Contains [xix], 367 pp. Spine sun faded, rubbing to the spine edges. Member of the P.B.F.A. POETRY, VERSE & RHYMES.…

Condition: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original brown leatherette cloth covers, gilt lettering to the spine. 8vo 6'' x 4¼'' 127 pp. Colour end papers and frontispiece. In Very Good clean condition, no dust wrapper as published. Member of the P.B.F.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE.

Thick 8vo. Maroon cloth, gilt titles and top edge, blind stamping. xviii, 576 [pp]. Spine sunned with shading to lower panel, touch of foxing to fore and lower edges. Member of the P.B.F.A. LITERATURE 1900-1925.

Publisher's original decorated soft brown suede covered card covers, gilt title block lettering and symmetrical art deco pattern to the upper panel, all page edges gilt. 24mo 3½'' x 2½''. Contains 38 printed pages of text. The page sections are baggy with with one section exposing the stitching, tear across the bottom of the front free end paper, 20 mm x 10 mm triangular piece of suede missing to the foot of the spine which creeps around on to the front cover. Member of the P.B.F.A. NINETEENTH CENTURY. …

Condition: Very Good. Uniform matching hard back binding in publisher's original russet cloth covers, gilt lettering to spines, black border lines to upper and lower panels, grey paper end papers, bevelled edges. 8vo 7" x 4½". Corners and spine tips slightly bumped and turned-in and in Very Good condition, spines not faded. Member of the P.B.F.A. POETRY, VERSE & RHYMES.…

2pp., 4to. 35 lines of verse. On a leaf of laid paper with watermark 'J WHATMAN | TURKEY MILL'. Paginated 13-14. Very good, on lightly-aged paper. The first page begins with the line 'The shrouding soil, and give it back to air,' and the second page ends with the line 'Won it's [sic] dark truth, and Gaspar fed on such.' The verses in this manuscript are published on pp.19-21 of 'A Day at Tivoli: with other Verses' (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Paternoster-row, 1849). There are two emendations to the manuscript: the second word of the phrase 'or boundary steeps' has been crossed out and replaced with 'rocky', which is the published reading; and the words 'thown out, in gest or face' have been crossed out and replaced wtih 'in gesture or in face', the published reading being 'in gesture and [sic] in face'. A 28-line passage has been marked out with a cross in the margin at beginning and end, and the leaf was perhaps sent to a printer for the republication of this extract which begins 'Oh Italy!, if fallen (as some delight | To say thou art (yet fallen from what vast height;'.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1884 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 157 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 157.…

8vo. 1 page. On armorial stationery. To Mrs Sydney Inwood Jones (1808-82), the niece of the famous novelist Lady Sydney Morgan, accepting an invitation: "I shall be happy indeed to dine with you on the 30th & 'look in' upon you on the other day you mention with much kindness [.]". - Browning wrote this letter soon after his resounding success with the verse novel "The Ring and the Book" (1868/69). - With a collector's note. - Traces of old mounting on the verso and to the margins.…