The Poems of Robert Browning. Selected, edited & introduced by C. Day Lewis. Illustrated with wood engravings by Peter Reddick. Cambridge: The Limited Editions Club, 1969.
One of 1,500 numbered copies signed by the illustrator. This being copy no. 1186.
Small quarto. 318 pp. Publisher's quarter blue crushed morocco leather over gray cloth boards, spine stamped in black and gilt, front cover inlaid with black embossed portrait of Browning, top edge stained gray. A fine copy with original, very slightly rubbed, slipcase.
His mastery of dramatic verse made Robert Browning (1812-1889) one of the most prominent poets of his day. Not only is he famous for his own work, but his wife, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861) was a famous poet as well, whose Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850) are some of the most famous poems by an English poet. As an interesting aside, Robert Browning was the first person to have his voice heard after his death: he was recorded reading his poem, How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix by Thomas Edison in 1889. This recording was first played in Venice in the following year.
Newman & Wiche, 416.
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