Author: Robert Browning
Title: Man and Women
Description: London, Chapman and Hall, 1855. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this collection of fifty one poems bound between two calf bound volumes. The first edition.Bound by Bickers with binder's stamp to recto of front free endpaper. A collection of fifty-one poems first published in 1855. Now considered to be one of Browning's finest works but when originally published it was poorly received and sold little. Each poem is in the form of monologue. They each explore the stories and feeling of different men and women. In a full calf binding. Externally smart. Light marks on the boards. Rubbing to the boards more visible to the joints on volume two. Hinge failure to both volumes. Bumping to the extremities. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with occasional spotting and age toning. Pencil annotations to the first few pages of volume one. Bookseller's stamp to recto of front free endpapers. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

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