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Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, POEMS: A NEW EDITION
(London: Ellis & White, 1881). First edition thus, 22.5 x
14cm (8vo), in publisher's cream paper spine over slate blue boards,
paper title-label to spine, deckle edges, [i-ix] x-xi [xii], [1-3]
4-294, [1-2 publ. adverts] mostly unopened pp. Limited Edition
Large Paper Copy printed on Whatman watermarked handmade paper by
Strangeways & Sons, London. Binding Fair (extremities a bit
worn w/moderate loss to spine & label, & fr. joint cracked);
contents Very Good (fore-edges browned). Rossetti 34 ("there were
also 31 copies printed on large paper"), Vaughan 11, Ashley IV 148,
Fredeman 23.11 ("contains four poems not in" the 1870 ed.), Fennell 22,
Colbeck 23. (Inv. #455) C$800 Home Page |