Touches of Nature (1867)

Rossetti, Christina G[eorgina]., George MacDonald, William Gilbert, et. al., TOUCHES OF NATURE BY EMINENT ARTISTS AND AUTHORS (London: Alexander Strahan, 1867).  First edition, 30.5 x 22.5cm [small folio], sumptuously bound in contemp. green morocco w/gilt decorations & title to covers & spine, raised bands, silk ribbon marker, a.e.g., decorative gilt turn-ins, marbled ep.s, [i-viii], 1-98 (gilt-bordered plates on cardstock) + 1-98 (text) + [1-196 blank versos] + [1-2 blanks] pp. w/titlepage vignette & 98 wood engraved plates by the Dalziels after J.E. Millais, Frederick Sandys, J.W. North, Fred Walker, W. Holman Hunt, John Tenniel, G.J. Pinwell, Thomas Morten, A.B. Houghton, etc.  Printed at the Camden Press, London.  Binding Very Good (extremities sl. bumped & rubbed); contents Good (lt.-to-moderate foxing to most leaves).  White 130-01, Reid 6 & 13, Fredeman 90.10, Ray 162, de Beaumont 385, Goldman 88.  (Inv. #741)  C$800 Home Page