The Ring and the Book / Robert Browning
Book
490 pages.Tissue-covered frontis portrait photo of older Browning.
One of 24 Luxembourg Classics issued by Crowell.
2015.7.147
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
Executions and executionersTrials (Murder)PoetryHistory1890s
8-1/4 in
Robert Browning
Luxembourg Classics
New York
New York
United States
North America
1897
Publisher's Binding
Decorative Designers
Unsigned binding, likely Henry Thayer/Decorative Designers. Repeating pattern of an open book stamped in pale lavender grey within interlocking gold rings on vertically ribbed light olive green cloth. Pattern repeated on spine. Top edge gilt.
Guido Franceschini
Pompilia Franceschini
Rome
Italy
Compare to cloth color of same title in dark green (2015.7.146) which is a much stronger contrast to the stamping.