The first volume, called The Foundations, and having twenty-one plates, and the second, called The Sea-Stories, with twenty plates, each cost two guineas. The third volume, called The Fall, with twelve plates, cost a guinea and a half. They were bound in cloth, stamped in gold, with the "Lion of St. Mark" on the back. A few copies of both volumes one and two were issued in two parts. The first volume ran into a second edition in 1858, and the second and third were reissued in 1867.
Octavo.
Collation: Three volumes. Illustrations. Fifty-three plates.
ROBERT BROWNING
(1812-1889)
93. Men And Women. | By | Robert Browning. | In Two Volumes. | Vol. I. | London: | Chapman And Hall, 193, Piccadilly. | 1855.
This was the only edition of Men and Women published separately. The poems it contained were afterward incorporated in collected editions; with the exception of In a Balcony, they were distributed under the respective headings of Dramatic Lyrics, Dramatic Romances, and Men and Women.
The book was issued in a green cloth binding, at twelve shillings a copy.
Octavo.