1918) at Sale Hill near Sheffield
with his autograph note mounted on the binder’s blank and Van Dyke’s card instructing the bindery
the covers framed by a broad outer border formed by closely spaced blind and gilt-ruled borders running along the edges
four pages of manuscript (regarding Robert Ingersoll) have been bound in after page 40
terminating in a single inlaid green and gilt plant base
[Fine Binding | Oxford Bindery] Robert Browning's Poetical Works E-List 13 1918) at Sale Hill nearBrowning, Robert. The Poetical Works of Robert Browning. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1899. Two volumes bound in one. Each volume with portrait frontispiece. Bound by the Oxford University Press bindery (signed "Oxford Binding" on front turn in) in full olive morocco, with incredibly dense stippled gilt panels tooled on the covers, accented with inlaid blue, red, and orange tulips. (In total, there are 341 inlaid morocco flowers and dots within the