Ring Book Two Volume Set by Robert Browning (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Author's Edition. Two volume set. Author's Edition (from Advanced Sheets) . The books are in Very Good- condition. There is bumping, rubbing and wear to the spine ends and corners, along with spots of fraying. There are several small tears to the spine ends and corners. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's penciled name on the first free page. "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 (18681869) made him a leading poet." (from Wikipedia).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 5 x 7 inches approximately. 2 Volumes. Brown covers with gold script. 329 pages, 332 pages. Faint pencil markings on title page of Volume 1 where an 1869 inscription once was. Minor wear and staining. In very good condition.

Hardcover. Book condition is Very Good, bound in 1/4 leather and paper covered boards, housed in a Very Good slipcase. Minor edge wear and a few weak smudges to slipcase. Sunning to slipcase. A few smudges to covers. A few small, weak scuffs to spine of each volume. Text is clean and unmarked. Illustrated throughout. Limited to 1,500 copies, this set numbered 822. ; Signed by the engraver, Carl Schultheiss, on the Limitation page. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 690 pages. First Edition in this Format; Limited Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Two volume set, ISBN 9781405845977 and 9781032164748. These are volumes 5 and 6 of the definitive Longman Annotated English Poets edition of Browning, comprising the whole of 'The Ring and the Book' with extensive annotation. No jackets, as issued.