[Fine Binding | Art Nouveau] Men and Women

Browning, Robert. Men and Women [two volumes]. Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company, 1899. Printed by A.C. Curtis. Tissue-covered frontispiece of Burne-Jones' "Love among the ruins" painting in vol. 1, "Andrea del Sarto and his Wife Lucrezia" (by del Sarto) as the frontis in vol. 2.

Bound in full brown crushed morocco with elaborate gilt border built up of various fleuron tools and gilt-rolled cross-hatching the corners. Spines with two widely-spaced bands delineating large title compartments, with small fleurons in top and bottom compartments. Gilt-rolled turn-ins with brown & olive mottled endpapers. Top edges gilt. light toning to fore-edges and bottom edges. Slender personal bookplate of Abel E. Berland on front pastedown of both volumes. Measures approx. 4.5" x 5.5". Some offsetting to endpapers, a few spots of light rubbing to edges. Spines a touch darkened.