8vo. xiii, [1], 451pp, [5]. With a photographic portrait frontispiece and two final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed, spine dulled. Upper hinge exposed, bookplate of the Robert Browning Settlement Library to FEP.

The second edition, printed in the same year as the first, of Alexandra Sutherland Orr's (1828-1903), authoritative biography of English poet and playwright Robert Browning (1812-1889).