1913 The Country of "The Ring and the Book"

Description

Folding Maps, Folding Plates, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

Browning's momentous dramatic poem was first published in four volumes from 1868 to 1869, detailing a real murder trial in Rome in 1698, where an impoverished nobleman, Count Guido Franceschini, is found guilty of the murder of his young wife Pompilia and her parents, having suspected his wife was having an affair with a young cleric, Giuseppe Caponsacchi. This work is separated into three sections, exploring 'The Story', 'The Country of the Story', and 'The People of the Story as They Appear in the Poem'. This copy is lacking its original dustwrapper, as usual. Featuring an armorial bookplate of a 'George Arbuthnot', possibly that of a businessman and civic leader in British India George Gough Arbuthnot. Collated, complete. Copiously illustrated throughout with one hundred and six black and white illustrations, plans and maps (two of which are fodling) and a coloured frontispiece plate of 'Madonna', by the renowned Italian painter Fra Filippo Lippi.