Shelfmark
Id1.3.14(01)-Id1.3.14(04) (Copy 1)
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Id1.3.15(01)-Id1.3.15(04) (Copy 2)
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Id1.3.16-Id1.3.19 (Copy 3)
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Id1.3.20-Id1.3.23 (Copy 4)
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Id1.3.24-Id1.3.27 (Copy 5)
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Id1.3.28-Id1.3.31 (Copy 6)
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Id1.3.32-Id1.3.35 (Copy 7)
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Id1.2.01 (Copy 8)
Author
Title
The ring and the book / by Robert Browning, M.A. ...
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Smith, Elder and Co., 1868-1869.
Physical description
4 v. ; 17 cm.
Note
Vol 1 with final advertisement leaf.
Note
Copies 1-3, 5: All vols with publisher's green cloth with black stamped decorative borders on boards, black stamped decoration on spine, and lettering stamped in gold on spine ; Carter binding variant 'A' as listed in "Binding variants", 1932.
Note
Copies 6 and 7: All vols with publisher's green cloth with black stamped decorative borders on boards, black stamped decoration on spine, and lettering stamped in gold on spine ; Carter binding variant 'B' as listed in "Binding variants", 1932.
Note
Copy 8: Publisher's ?second edition brown cloth with black stamped borders on boards and lettering stamped in gold on spine.
Provenance
Copies 1, 2, 4-8: From the Michael Meredith Browning Collection ; Copies 1, 5, 6-8 with bookplate.
Provenance
Copy 1: Vol 1 with ms. inscription: "Reuben Browning Esq., from his ever affectionately, R[obert]. B[rowning]. Dec 1. '68."
Provenance
Copy 2: Tipped-in letter (dated 1868-12-04) from Matthew Arnold to Dean Farrar gifting Dean Farrar this book as Matthew Arnold had received a copy from both the publisher and Robert Browning ; vols 2 and 3 with ms. ownership signature in pencil of Dean Farrar.
Provenance
Copy 3: Donated to ECL by Belinda Norman-Butler.
Provenance
Copy 3: Vol 1 with bookplate of Anne Thackeray Ritchie with ms. inscription in Robert Browning's hand: "Robert Browning wishes he had been privileged to give this book to Miss [Anne Thackeray] Ritchie".
Provenance
Copy 4: Vol 1 with ms. inscription: "To dear Fanny Haworth, with many rememberances and much affection - from Robert Browning, Versailles, May 9. '69."
Provenance
Copy 5: Vol 1 with bookplate of H. Bradley Martin.
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Copy 5: All vols with booklabel of J. O. Edwards.
Provenance
Copy 5: All vols with ms. ownership inscription on Alfred Forman, dated in the month and year of publication.
Provenance
Copy 6: All vols with ms. inscription: "Mary Swanwick, 13 July 1869".
Provenance
Copy 7: All vols with armorial bookplate of Julian Park (obscuring a previous bookplate).
Binding
Copy 1: All vols housed in 20th century green cloth box with gilt lettering and tooling, and gilt on burgundy leather lettering piece.
Binding
Copy 2: All housed in 20th century green cloth and morocco box with gilt lettering and tooling.
Binding
Copy 3: All vols housed in ?19th century green cloth slipcase.
Binding
Copy 4: Contemporary 19th century blue leather with gilt lettering on spine and gilt tooling on turn-ins, gilt top-edge, and blue marbled endpapers ; publisher's green cloth bound in after text of each vol (Carter's binding variant 'A').
Copy-specific note
Copies 1, 2, 5-8: Ms. bookseller's notes in pencil.
Copy-specific note
Copy 1: ?Lacking advertisement leaf.
Copy-specific note
Copy 2: Two loose carte-de-visite, one featuring a portrait of Dean Farrar, the other a portrait of Matthew Arnold.
Copy-specific note
Copy 4: Ms. previous shelfmarks in pencil.
Copy-specific note
Copy 5: Ms. annotation in pencil at the head of every section in vols 1, 2, and 3.
Copy-specific note
Copy 8: Vol 1 only.
Subject
Trials (Murder) Rome History 17th century.
Added entry--name
Meredith, Michael, 1936 - ? donor.
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Browning, Robert, 1812 - 1889 inscriber.
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Browning, Reuben former owner.
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Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William), 1831 - 1903 former owner.
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Arnold, Matthew, 1822 - 1888 former owner.
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Norman-Butler, Belinda, 1908 - 2008 former owner.
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Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, 1837 - 1919 former owner.
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Haworth, Euphrasia Fanny, 1801 - 1883 former owner.
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Martin, H. Bradley, 1906 - 1988 former owner.
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Edwards, J. O. former owner.
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Forman, Alfred, 1840 - 1925 former owner.
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Swanwick, Mary former owner.
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Park, Julian former owner.
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Smith, Elder & Co. publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B29135