Dramatis Personae and Dramatic Romances and Lyrics by Robert Browning - 1909

Lippincott, 1909-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000.

Lippincott, 1909. Hardcover. A VG+ tight copy in a VG dj chipped at spine top corner and tips. 10 color illustrations by Eleanor Brickdale.

London: Chatto & Windus. 1909. Repr., quarto, pp.246, colour frontis., and plates, cnrs bumped, occasional foxing (plates clean), original cloth boards with gilt decoration. Very good condition Reprint. Boards.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1909. 1st ed. Hardcover. Brickdale, Eleanor. 1st ptg, 4to full olive cloth with gilt embossed image. Ten charming color plates by Eleanor Brickdale. Wear to tips, gilt darkened, toning to endpapers and light foxing to title page, else near fine, with ink name and date (1924) to front free endpaper.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1909. Cloth. Good. 9.5" by 7". Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale. 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… Read More

9 full page color tipped in illus. and frontis illustrations with tissue guards by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale

Letchworth: Chatto & Windus, 1909. Limited First Edition. Vellum. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale. B Tall Shelf 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

Published by Chatto & Windus, 1909. Hardback. Very Good. Illustrated by Brickdale, Eleanor Fortescue. 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.

Browning, Robert. Dramatis Personae & Dramatic Romances & Lyrics. London: Chatto & Windus, 1909. With 10 color illustrations by Eleanore F. Brickdale. No. 44 of special edition of 260 copies. Quarto (10.5 x 8"). xi, 246pp. Gilt-stamped vellum. Minor wear, occasional spots of foxing to prelims (as is usual). Eleanore F. Brickdale, RWS (1871-1945), English illustrator. Houfe notes that "her highly detailed and meaningful little pictures are crammed with medievalism and moral sentiment." References: Cambridge History of English Literature (1917), vol. 11; Houfe. Dictionary of British Book Illustrators (1978).