The Ring And The Book

London: Smith, Elder And Co, 1869. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth backstrips lettered in gilt, beveled edges, borders decorated in blind. Very good housed in near fine full red morocco drop box. 4 Vols. 245, 251, 249, 235 pages. 17.5 x 11 cm. Browning's long epic blank verse poem which is composed of 12 books cemented his reputation as the leading English Victorian poet, and is arguably his greatest work. Book plates front cover pastedowns. Interior contents clean and fresh. Slight rubbing to extremities.