Excerpt from The Old Yellow Book: Source of Browning's the Ring and the Book The plan of the volume has grown deliberately from the material before the editor, in his endeavor to present fully this extensive poem side by side with its equally extensive source book, and yet to keep the volume as lucid and as easily usable as possible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.