1849.  POEMS BY ROBERT BROWNING.  A New Edition [but the first collection under a collective title]. 2 vols., 8vo.  Chapman and Hall, 1849.

     Contents:  vol. i.  Paracelsus, p. 1.  Pippa Passes, a Drama,
     p. 163.  King Victor and King Charles, a Tragedy, p. 231. 
     Colombe’s Birthday, a Play, p. 302.

Vol. ii.  A Blot in the ’Scutcheon, a Tragedy, p. 1.  The Return of the Druses, a Tragedy, p. 61.  Luria, a Tragedy, p. 139.  A Soul’s Tragedy, p. 211.  Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, p. 253; 38 of the 41 pieces in Bells and Pomegranates, Nos. 3 and 7, the three omitted being Claret, Tokay, and Here’s to Nelson’s Memory.

1850.  CHRISTMAS-EVE AND EASTER-DAY.  A Poem.  By Robert Browning. 8vo.  Chapman and Hall, 1850.  Reprinted in Works, 1863, and after.

1852.  Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley.  With an Introductory ESSAY BY ROBERT BROWNING.  London, E. Moxon, 1852. 8vo. [The Essay is on Shelley—­not on the “Letters,” which were afterwards discovered to be spurious, with one exception.] The Essay was reprinted in the Browning Society’s Papers, Part I., 1881.  Edited by Dr. F. J. Furnivall.  Another reprint, edited by W Tyas Harden, appeared in 1888, 8vo.

1854.  Two POEMS. By Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. 8vo.  London, Chapman and Hall, 1854.  Price Sixpence.  The poem by Robert Browning here is “The Twins,” and is dated “Rome, March 30th, 1854.”  Reprinted in Men and Women, 1855, and in Works, 1863 and after.  The “Two Poems” were printed by Miss Arabella Barrett for sale at a bazaar in aid of a “Refuge for Young Destitute Girls.”  Mrs. Browning’s contribution was “A Plea for the Ragged Schools of London.”

1855.  MEN AND WOMEN.  By Robert Browning.  In two vols. 8vo.  London, Chapman and Hall.

     Contents:  Vol.  I.—­

     Love Among the Ruins, p. 1.
     A Lover’s Quarrel, p. 17.
     Evelyn Hope, p. 19.
     Up at a Villa—­Down in the City, p. 23.
     A Woman’s Last Word, p. 31.
     Fra Lippo Lippi, p. 35.
     A Toccata of Galuppi’s, p. 56.
     By the Fire-side, p. 63.
     Any Wife to Any Husband, p. 81.
     An Epistle concerning the strange Medical Experience of
       Karshish the Arab Physician, p. 90.
     Mesmerism, p. 107.
     A Serenade at the Villa, p. 117.
     My Star, p. 122.
     Instans Tyrannus, p. 123.
     A Pretty Woman, p. 128.
     “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came,” p. 134.
     Respectability, p. 149.
     A Light Woman, p. 151.
     The Statue and the Bust, p. 156.
     Love in a Life, p. 173
     Life in a Love, p. 175.
     How it Strikes a Contemporary, p. 177
     The Last Ride together,