THE RING AND THE BOOK

NEW YORK: THE HERITAGE PRESS, 1949 Browning, Robert, 1812-89, English poet. His remarkably broad and sound education was primarily the work of his artistic and scholarly parents-in particular his father, a London bank clerk of independent means. Pauline, his first poem, was published anonymously in 1833. The Ring and the Book is a long dramatic narrative poem, and, more specifically, a verse novel, of 21,000 lines, written by Robert Browning. It was published in four installments from 1868 to 1869 in Cornhill Magazine. The book tells the story of a murder trial in Rome in 1698, whereby an impoverished nobleman, Count Guido Franceschini, is found guilty of the murders of his young wife Pompilia Comparini and her parents, having suspected his wife was having an affair with a young cleric, Giuseppe Caponsacchi. TERRIFIC PIECE OF HISTORY, COLLECTOR ITEM. NICE RED COVER WITH GREEN FABRIC SPINE, BLACK PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. NO INTERNAL MARKS, PAGE 685 HAS A 2" TEAR NEAR BOTTOM, ALL PAGE IN TACT. 16 ENGRAVINGS. INTRODUCTION BY EDWARD DOWDEN. BLACK SLIP COVER IN GOOD CONDITION WITH WEAR IN A FEW PLACES ON EDGES. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.