Description
The first Oxford edition of Poems of Robert Browning by Robert Browning, published in 1905.
Octavo, vii, 623pp, [1]. Publisher’s quarter vellum, marbled boards, title stamped in gilt on the spine. Includes frontispiece portrait, silk bookmark. Faint foxing to preliminary leaves. Touch of shelf wear to marbled boards. Internally clean, solid text block. Bound by the W.H. Smith Bindery of London.
An attractive example.
Issued by Henry Frowde for Oxford University Press, this collected edition gathers Browning’s principal poems and dramas, including Dramatic Lyrics, Dramatic Romances, Men and Women, Pauline, Paracelsus, Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day, and Sordello. A later Oxford issue of 1909 added Dramatis Personae.
