"Pippa Passes; & Men & Women", by Robert Browning, illustrated by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale, published by Chatto & Windus, London, 1908, First Edition.

CONTENTS:

Pippa Passes;
Men and Women;
Love among the Ruins;
A Lover's Quarrel;
Evelyn Hope;
Up at a Villa--Down in the City;
A Woman's Last Word; Fra Lippo Lippi;
A Toccata of Galuppi's;
By the Fireside;
Any Wife to any Husband;
An Epistle;
Mesmerism;
A Serenade at the Villa;
My Star;
Instans Tyrannus;
A Pretty Woman;
"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came";
Respectability;
A Light Woman;
The Statue and the Bust;
Love in a Life;
Life in a Love;
How it strikes a Contemporary;
The Last Ride Together;
The Patriot;
Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha;
Bishop Blougram's Apology;
Memorabilia;
Andrea del Sarto; Before; After; In Three Days; In a Year;
Old Pictures in Florence; Saul;
"De Gustibus--";
Women and Roses;
Protus;
Holy-Cross Day;
The Guardian-Angel; Cleon; The Twins; Popularity;
The Heretic's Tragedy; Two in the Campagna;
A Grammarian's Funeral;
One Way of Love;
"Transcendentalism"; Misconceptions; One Word More.

Pippa Passes is a verse drama and was first published in 1841 as the first volume of his "Bells and Pomegranates" series, in a very inexpensive two-column edition for sixpence. The author described the work as "the first of a series of dramatic pieces." A young, blameless silk-winding girl is wandering innocently through the environs of Asolo, in her mind attributing kindness and virtue to the people she passes. She sings as she goes, her song influencing others to act for the good - or, at the least, reminding them of the existence of a moral order.
"The year's at the spring,
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;
The hill-side's dew-pearled;
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn;
God's in His heaven-
All's right with the world!"

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1871, Upper Norwood, Surrey - 10 March 1945) was an English artist. She was trained first at the Crystal Palace School of Art, under Herbert Bone and entered the Royal Academy in 1896. Her first major painting was The Pale Complexion of True Love (1899). She soon began exhibiting her oil paintings at the Royal Academy, and her watercolors at the Dowdeswell Gallery, where she had several solo exhibitions. While at the academy, she came under the influence of John Listen Byam Shaw, a protege of John Everett Millais much influenced by John William Waterhouse. When Byam Shaw founded an art school in 1911, Fortescue-Brickdale became a teacher there.

In 1909, Ernest Brown, of the Leicester Galleries, commissioned a series of 28 watercolor illustrations to Tennyson's "Idylls of the King", which she painted over two years. They were exhibited in the gallery in 1911, and 24 of them were published the next year in a deluxe edition of the first four Idylls

She lived during much of her career in Holland Park Road, opposite Leighton House, where she held an exhibition in 1904. Later, she also worked with stained glass. She was a staunch Christian, and donated works to churches. Among her best known works are "The Uninvited Guest and Guinevere".

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Hard boards, embossed figure on the front board; original publisher's cloth stamped in gold [a little wear, one small hole on spine]; 6.3/4" x 9.3/8"; ex-libris inside front cover [nice vintage private book plate]; pen-written name on the front endpaper; 254 pages [a couple of pages are still unopened at the edge and some were roughly opened: see picture]; 10 plates on glossy paper [all listed plates are present], very good binding and condition.