Two volumes. dark green cloth boards with blind stamped border line to boards and gilt \'RB\' roundel to front boards. Gilt lettering to spine strips. Gilt page tops. Dark green end papers. Illustrated frontispieces, with protective tissue paper: vol I - \'Robert Browning, 1835\', with facsimile signature; vol II - \'Robert Browning, 1881\', with facsimile signature. Vol I - editor\'s note (Augustine Birrell); author\'s prefaces (1868, 1888); a number of works starting with \'Pauline: a fragment of a confession\' and ending with Aristophanes\' Apology\'; 764 pages. Vol II - a number of works starting with \'The Ring and the Book\' and ending with \'Asolando: fancies and facts\'; a chronological list of Robert Browning\'s poems and plays; index to first lines of shorter poems and songs; general index; 793 pages. Adverts for other Smith Elder publications at back of each volume.