1887 A Handbook to the Works of Robert Browning

Description

Early Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding

Third edition, revised.

Bound by Zaehnsdorf in full crushed morocco with gilt decorations and dentelles.

Written by Mrs Sutherland Orr, this handbook provides notes and reflections on the works of Victorian poet, Robert Browning.

The author examines Brownings varied catalogue of poetry, including his celebrated works 'The Ring and the Book', 'My Last Duchess', 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came' and many more.

With the morocco bookplate of W.A. Foyle of Beeleigh Abbey to the front pastedown. William Foyle founded Foyles bookshop in 1903 alongside his brother. He purchased Beeleigh Abbey during the Second World War, an impressive twelfth century monastery in Essex. Beeleigh housed his library, one of the largest private libraries in England.