1868-69 ROBERT BROWNING. The Ring and the Book. First Edition in Custom Vertical Clamshell Box. Congregational Alone with Jesus [Jacksonville

Alone with Jesus [Jacksonville

lightly tender between signatures with rear mull exposed rendering rear interior hinge a bit tender

and a Memoir of Richard Baxter which was appended to the 19th century edition of Baxter’s Practical Works

Sermons on Several Subjects

and was likely a central feature of life on one of the most active gunships of the Civil War

1868-69 ROBERT BROWNING. The Ring and the Book. First Edition in Custom Vertical Clamshell Box. Congregational Alone with Jesus [JacksonvilleA really beautiful artifact and early imprint of Robert Browning's 21,000 line epic narrative poem, The Ring and the Book. Loathe to cover the original publisher's cloth, someone at a very early date had constructed a full morocco faux binding vertical clamshell box to house the set. The box is structurally good with a structural breach at the corner of the sliding lid on the rear, but still attractive and sound. Rubbed through at points, consolidated