Bibliographic Notes on One Hundred Books Famous in English Literature

Chapter 98: ROBERT BROWNING (1812-1889)

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The book presents concise bibliographical essays on one hundred significant works of English literature, summarizing authorship, publication histories, typographical features, editional variants, and illustration and collation details. A prefatory explanation outlines the selection criteria and editorial practices used for handling early spelling and printing peculiarities. Individual entries vary in length depending on existing scholarship and rarity, and the volume includes a list of corrections, a contents list, and an index to aid reference. Overall, it documents the physical and textual histories of landmark volumes to assist readers in identifying and understanding important variant issues.

ROBERT BROWNING

(1812-1889)

This was the only edition of Men and Women published separately. The poems it contained were afterward incorporated in collected editions; with the exception of In a Balcony, they were distributed under the respective headings of Dramatic Lyrics, Dramatic Romances, and Men and Women.

The book was issued in a green cloth binding, at twelve shillings a copy.

Octavo.

Collation: Two volumes. Volume I: iv, 260 pp. Volume II: iv, 241 pp.