Published by John Murray, London, first UK edition, 1933, 1933
First Edition
Cloth, gilt cover-device, 8vo, 25 cm, xx, 389 pp, plates, facs. This reprints the Browning letters from several volumes which Thomas J. Wise had issued in small privately printed collections, and prints for the first time a number from other sources. Coming as it did just a year before Carter and Pollard's famous exposure of Wise as a forger, the editor no doubt regretted his words in the introduction: "It is with an overwhelming sense of good fortune in having been the first to ask the favor, that the editor expresses his gratitude for the freely granted privilege of publishing this collection of Robert Browning's letters. He has made full use not only of Mr. Wise's letters but of the many notes which Mr. Wise and the late Professor W. Hall Griffin prepared. Such scholars have always been concerned solely to further knowledge of the great poet." Spine-ends a trifle bumped, otherwise Very Good.