Beautifully bound first edition of this collection, one of the great Victorian poet's most acclaimed.
Very good plus.
Price: $900.00
"It is as a lyric poet that Browning ranks highest; and in this highest class it is impossible to refuse him all but the highest rank" — George Saintsbury
This collection includes some of Browning's best known love lyrics, such as "Love Among the Ruins," and "Evelyn Hope" — fittingly in keeping with the title of the collection, which was a reference to his wife Elizabeth Barrett Browning's celebrated SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE (1850). It also includes dramatic monologues, for which he is best known today, like "Fra Lippo Lippi." A superior set.
Read more: Saintsbury, History of Nineteenth Century Literature.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1855. 2 volumes, 6.5'' x 4'' each. Late 19th-century full red goatskin by Rivière & Son, floral gilt tooling to boards, spines elaborately tooled in gilt, raised bands. All edges gilt, gilt-tooled dentelles, blue coated endpapers. iv, 260; iv, 241, [1] pages. Spines somewhat darkened, with rubbing to joints. Else clean and bright.
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