ROBERT BROWNING. The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning. New Cambridge Edition. In one convenient volume, printed on clear type, opaque paper, and attractively bound. With a Biographical Sketch, Notes, Indexes, a fine new portrait, and engraved title-page, and a vignette of Asolo. Crown 8vo, gilt top. $3.00; half calf, gilt top, $5.00; tree calf or full levant, $7.00. This is a triumph of bookmaking, bringing, for the first time, within a single convenient volume the complete wonderful and voluminous product of Browning's genius. It contains Browning's Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works (including fragments not contained in any previous edition of his works), with a Biographical Sketch, explanatory head and foot notes, in an Appendix Browning's Essay on Shelley, a chronological list of his writings, indexes to titles and first lines, etc.; the whole beautifully printed on the best paper, specially made for this book, in clear and readable type, and tastefully and durably bound. It is a work that challenges comparison with any similar volume ever produced. The book has a new portrait of Browning, considered the best, and a vignette of Asolo for the engraved half title. Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works. Riverside Edition. With text as revised and rearranged by Mr. Browning, a fine Steel Portrait, and Indexes. Complete in six volumes. Crown 8vo, gilt top, each $1.75; the set, cloth, $10.00; half calf, $20.00; half calf, gilt top, $21.00; half levant, $24.00. This edition presents the Poetic and Dramatic Works of Browning complete, with Mr. Browning's latest revisions, and in a form admirably suited for the study or the library. It is carefully printed on long-primer type, and bound in simple but attractive style. A Guide-Book to the Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning. By GEORGE WILLIS COOKE. Crown 8vo, uniform with the Riverside Browning. $2.00. This furnishes Introductions and Notes to all of Browning's Poems, and is a very useful volume of annotations to his Works. A Browning Phrase-Book. By MARIE ADA MOLINEUX, A. M., PH. D. I vol. crown 8vo. [Nearly Ready.] This book contains the quotable passages of Browning's works, arranged and indexed under leading words; also a list of all the notable proper names, compounds, rare words, and peculiarities of Browning's diction, with references to the poems and passages in which they occur. These references are to the Riverside Edition of Browning, and to the new Cambridge Edition. 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