The Poems of Robert Browning by Robert Browning - 1979

VERY GOOD condition --- Tight binding. Crisp exterior. Clean, unmarked pages. NOTE: Very small blemish to bottom outside corner of textblock. Please inspect photos closely for condition details.


This title is featured in the Easton Press series: "The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written". Published in 1979, and bound in handsome mocha leather, this copy is 1st Edition thus.


Specifics of this series from the Easton Press website:

* Fully and tightly bound in genuine leather
* 22kt gold accents deeply inlaid on the "hubbed" spine.
* Heavy duty binding boards... .
* Superbly printed on acid-neutral paper... .
* Sewn pages – not just glued like ordinary books.
* ...moiré endpages and a satin-ribbon page marker.
* Gilded page ends.


Included is an insert of historical/background notes on the work, compiled by seller.

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"That [Robert] Browning was a 'revolutionary' poet, of this time, both in technique and in cast of mind, there can be no question. At the centre of his innovation was a psychological subtlety unmatched by any other Victorian poet save the Meridith of 'Modern Love'. This — together with his lyrical gift, and the 'copiousness' which, as T. S. Eliot remarked, is one of the signs of the major poet — will insure for him, I believe, a permanent place in the Pantheon."

The above text is derived from the Introduction to this Easton Press edition, written by C. Day Lewis.