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Rossetti, William Michael (ed. &
contr.), Dante Gabriel and Christina Georgina Rossetti
(the latter as "Ellen Alleyn"), William Bell Scott,
Thomas Woolner, Coventry Patmore, John Lucas Tupper (contr.s), and Ford Madox Brown (illus.), ART AND POETRY:
BEING THOUGHTS TOWARDS NATURE CONDUCTED PRINCIPALLY BY ARTISTS
(London: Dickinson & Co. and Aylott & Jones, March 1850).
First edition, 22 x 14cm (large 16mo), in original beige paper wraps
w/printed title to recto & Contents to verso of fr. wrap, &
Provident Life Office advert to recto & editorial statement to
verso of rear wrap, pp.97-144 (entirely unopened), + tissue-guarded
double page etching (Cordelia) by Madox Brown. Printed in
London by G.F. Tupper, this is the true 1st printing on good quality
paper w/the etching printed on plate paper. Included are DGR's
"The Carillon (Antwerp and Bruges)" & "From the Cliffs: Noon,"
& CGR's "Repining" & "Sweet Death"--see the British Library copy for the full text of this
number. Binding Good (part of paper backstrip chipped away,
dampstains to fr. wrap, & edges of wraps sl. chipped); contents
Very Good (dampstains & minor edge-chipping to frontis). Athenæum
6 Apr. 1850 p.362 (advert), Rossetti 3, Ashley IV 164, Ehrsam &
Deily 209, Fredeman 72.1 & 90.1, Ray p.140, Colbeck 1 (under DGR),
Goldman pp.9 & 274 (see Plate 1.38). (Inv. #739) C$1,400 Home Page |