The appendices present a selection from the original sources, a list of variants from extant proofs, and key passages from Browning's fascinating and revealing correspondence. The aim is to enable readers not just to understand the poem as an object of study, but to take pleasure in its intellectual and emotional energies

John Woolford is Emeritus Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture at the University of Manchester and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield, UK. Daniel Karlin is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Bristol, UK, and a Fellow of the British Academy. Joseph Phelan is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at De Montfort University, UK.

The Ring and the Book, Book VII - Pompilia, Book VIII - Dominus Hyacinthus de Archangelis, Pauperum Procurator, Book IX - Juris Doctor Johannes-Baptista Bottinius, Fisci et Rev. Cam. Apostol. Advocatus, Book X - The Pope, Book XI - Guido, Book XII - The Book and the Ring, Appendix A - Translations of the 'old yellow book', Appendix B - Morte Dell' Uxoricida Guido Franceschini Decapitato [The Death of the Wife-Murderer Guido Franceschini, by Beheading] (The 'Secondary Source' of The Ring and the Book), Appendix C - The depositions of Francesca (Pompilia) and Caponsacchi in the 'old yellow book', Appendix D - Authorial variants in the first American edition, Appendix E - Variants in Yale sheets, Appendix F - Selections from Browning's correspondence with Julia Wedgwood