The Ring and the Book / Robert Browning

Book

American Bookbinders Museum

Name/Title

The Ring and the Book / Robert Browning

Entry/Object ID

2015.7.146

Description

Bound for Beauty #34 490 p., [1] leaf of plates Tissue-covered frontis portrait photo of older Browning. One of 24 Luxembourg Classics issued by Crowell.

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

Executions and executioners, 1890s, Poetry, History

Dimensions

Height

8-1/4 in

Book Details

Author

Robert Browning

Editor

Charlotte Endymion Porter, Helen Archibald Clarke

Publisher

Thomas Y. Crowell & Company

Place Published

City

New York, Boston

State/Province

New York, Massachusetts

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Published

1897

Printer

Norwood Press ; J.S. Cushing & Co. ; Berwick & Smith

Place Printed

City

Cambridge

State/Province

Massachusetts

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding

Binding Designer

Decorative Designers

Binding Notes

Unsigned binding, likely Henry Thayer/Decorative Designers. Gold and off-white repeating pattern of an open book stamped in off-white within interlocking gold rings on vertically ribbed dark olive green cloth. Pattern repeated on spine. Top edge gilt.

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Guido Franceschini

Person or Organization

Pompilia Franceschini

Related Places

Place

City

Rome

Country

Italy

Related Entries

Notes

Compare to cloth color of same title in light olive green cloth (2015.7.147). This one has a much stronger contrast to the stamping.

Exhibition

Bound for Beauty: Highlights from the Roberts Collection