8vo. xx, 389pp, [1]. With a photographic portrait frontispiece, and a further 15 photographic plates. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt. Without dustwrappper. Very minor shelf-wear. Internally immaculate. Inked gift inscription to recto of FFEP: 'For Rev. Herbert Herries / in remembrance of kind. 1933 / from / Fannie Barrett Browning'.

The first edition of a selection of the correspondence of poet and playwright Robert Browning (1812-1889) dating from 1830 to 1887.

Fannie Barrett Browning [nee Coddington] (1853-1935), American heiress, spouse of Robert Barrett 'Pen' Browning (1849-1912), and thus daughter-in-law of Robert Browning.