Selections from the Poetical Works of Robert Browning

£150 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

A handsome collection of Browning's poems, finely bound by Bickers Son for Norwich High School, and featuring poems such as 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came' and 'My Last Duchess'. 8vo (17.5 x 12 cm); ownership inscription in pen to front free endpaper recto, light spotting to prelims but overall the contents clean and fresh; full tree calf by Bickers Son, covers with gilt roll border and Norwich High School amorial centrepiece in gilt, spine gilt in 6 compartments, with contrasting morocco lettering-piece in gilt, raised bands, minor signs of wear to extremities, boards slightly warped, marbled edges and endpapers, very good; 297 pp.

• Binding: Hardcover

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