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Price: US$28.05 + shipping
Description: 4to. 24cm, xi,246p., decorated title page, 10 colour plates, original light olive green fine grain linen, gilt titles & pictorial decoration, t.e.g., a very good copy (lt). ~ Beautifully illustrated in watercolours in Pre Raphaelite style. Printed at the Arden Press.
Seller: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Canada
Browning, Robert. Dramatis Personae and Dramatic Romances & Lyrics. Chatto & Windus, London, 1909.
Price: US$33.08 + shipping
Description: Repr., quarto, pp.246, colour frontis., and plates, cnrs bumped, occasional foxing (plates clean), original cloth boards with gilt decoration. Very good condition
Seller: Muir Books -Robert Muir Old & Rare Books - ANZAAB/ILAB, PERTH, WA, Australia
Robert Browning. Dramatis Personae and Dramatic Romances & Lyrics. Chatto & Windus, London, 1909.
Price: US$49.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A charming illustrated copy of Robert Browning's 'Dramatis Personae and Dramatic Romances & Lyrics'. With ten coloured plates illustrated by one of the most popular artists of the Edwardian era, Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale. Brickdale gained notoriety as an illustrator, painter and watercolour artist, and many of her works were painted in a Pre-Raphaelite style. Beyond her work as an artist Brickdale as worked as a designer, producing stained-glass windows and small-scale sculptures as well as paintings. Amongst her best known works are 'The Uninvited Guest' and 'Guinevere'. Robert Browning was a major English poet of the Victorian age, noted for his dark humour, irony and dramatic monologues. Whilst his path to success was rather slow and faltering, it was the publication of this text, his 'Dramatis Personae' (1864) and 'The Ring and the Book' (1868-9), his greatest work, that led to the poet's success and popularity, beginning a critical re-evaluation of his work. Indeed, this collection of poetry was his first publication after a nine-year hiatus, and is notably darker than the poems found in 'Men and Women', his previous collection, hence embodying a turning point in Browning's style. In a cloth binding with gilt detail. Externally, generally smart. Sunned to spine. Light bumping to extremities. Bumped to head and tail of spine, resulting in small loss to cloth. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$76.85 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Limited edition, this being no. 123 of 250. Full vellum binding, now a little grubby and with a small piece missing from the bottom edge.Gilt titles and decoration. A little scattered foxing. Neat insc. on reverse of ffep.'marbled style' end-papers, deckle edges. Contents clean and tight.Ten plates in colour. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall
Seller: Florence books, Salisbury, WILTS, United Kingdom
Robert Browning. Dramatis Personae; & Dramatic Romances & Lyrics. Chatto & Windus, London, 1909.
Price: US$96.06 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A limited edition copy of two anthologies of poems by Robert Browning, beautifully illustrated in colour by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale. A limited edition of two hundred and sixty copies, of which two hundred and fifty were for sale. This copy is numbered one hundred and thirty five.A poetical anthology of the works of Robert Browning, including his 1845 collection 'Dramatic Romances and Lyrics', and his 1864 'Dramatis Personae'.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, and nine colour plates, by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale.Browning was a leading English poet of the Victorian era, 'Dramatis Personae' being one of his best known works, the first poetry collection he published after the death of his wife, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. His 'Dramatic Romances' was the seventh volume in his series 'Bells and Pomegranates'.Collated, complete. In the publisher's original vellum binding. Externally, vellum is discoloured and rubbed. Minor bumping to the extremities. Some light marks to the boards and spine. Front hinge is starting but firm. Rear endpaper has been removed. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with scattered spots. Frontispiece is detached but present. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited to 260 copies, 250 for sale. This copy not numbered. xi, 246 p. 26 cm. Ten pasted-in colour plates by Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale. Vellum hardcover with gold impressing. Top edge gilt. Some soiling to exterior. Bottom of front board torn and bottom front corner slightly worn. Small mark on spine. Some pages uncut.
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
Browning, Robert. Dramatis Personae And Dramatic Romances And Lyrics. Chatto & Windus, London, 1909.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: xi,246 Pp. 9 full page color tipped in illus. and frontis illustrations with tissue guards by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale This edition part of the St. Martin's Illustrated Library of Standard Works Previous owner's book plate & inscription to half title. Some dampstaining to edges of vellum Decorative full vellum binding with dust jacket, marbled endpapers #188 of a limited large paper edition of 260 copies
Seller: Schooner Books Ltd.(ABAC/ALAC), Halifax, NS, Canada
Price: US$153.48 + shipping
Description: Nr. 153 einer Auflage von 260 Exemplaren. gr.-8°, XI, 246 S., mit illustr. Titelbl., 10 Farbtaf mit Oleaten., OPgtbd. m. gldgepr. Deckelzeichn., staubdunkel, berieb., stockfleck., einige Rasurspuren am RüDeckel, Vorderdeckel aufgewölbt, marmor. Schmuckvorsätze, welliger Schnitt, Goldschnitt, retro flieg. Vorsatz mehrzeil. Widmung, einige Wasserränder auf den ersten Ss.
Seller: Antiquariat Löcker, Wien, Austria
Browning, Robert. Dramatis Personae & Dramatic Romances & Lyrics. Chatto & Windus, Letchworth, 1909.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Cream boards with raised gilt lettering [4]+v-ix+246p,illus,color,dep. This is No 57 of 260 copies. Interior near fine Sis color plates Three sections of paper loss on paste-down and pep Rear hinge exposed
Seller: Samuel Lasenby Bookseller, Corona del Mar, CA, U.S.A.
Browning, Robert. DRAMATIS PERSONAE AND DRAMATIC ROMANCES & LYRICS. Chatto & Windus, 1909.
Price: US$201.74 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1909. Very good condition with no wrapper. Limited edition of 260 copies (of which 250 are for sale). White vellum binding with gilt titles and vignette. 246 pages. 10 mounted colour plates with captioned tissue guards. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Minimal bumping to spine. A couple of marks to rear cover. Foxing and pale page browning to contents else clean. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Price: US$222.00 + shipping
Description: 4to. pp. xi, 246, [2]. 10 mounted colour plates (incl. frontis.). tissue guards with legends. gilt-stamped cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut (bit soiled, slight wear to spine ends, foxing to frontis. & title). First Edition Thus, Limited to 260 copies (incl. 10 hors-commerce), this copy out of series.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada