Sales catalogue 444: Maggs Bros

Date:
1923
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/25
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 444: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Rossetti (D. G.)—continued. THE AUTHOR’S OWN COPY WITH THE SUPPRESSED FRONTISPIECE. 2348 ———— The Eariy Italian Poets from Ciullo d’alcamo to Dante Alighieri (1 100-1200-1300) in the original metres. Together with Dante’s Vita Nuova translated by D. G. Rossetti. FIRST EDITION. Post 8vo, ovzgznal cloth, uncut. London, 1801. (Preserved in a levant morocco case.) £52 10s The Poet’s Own Copy, with his Autograph Signature on half-title, “D. G. Rossetti, May, 1863.’’ It is Unique, as it contains a proof Impression of the suppressed [Frontispiece (Two lovers Kissing in a rose garden), and further the Study for same (the two figures only), both proof Impressions on India Paper. (It is interesting to note that the male figure is a portrait of A. C. Swinburne). In the Bibliography of the Works of D. G. R., by W. M. Rossetti, this frontispiece is thus referred to :— ““ For the volume, the Early Italian Poets, Rossetti made a design of two lovers Kissing in a vose garden. This design was cut on wood, to serve as a title-page: but the edition finally appeared without the design. One copy containing the design used to belong to William Bell Scott: he considered it, and perhaps correctly, to be the only copy so illustrated.”” The preliminary study however was unknown to W. M. Rossetti. PRESENTATION COPY 2349 ———— The Early Italian Poets (1 100-1200-1300). FIRST EDITION. Post 8vo, ozzgznal cloth. London, 1861. £14 14s *** Presentation Copy from the Author to the Celebrated Pre-Raphaelite and Art Critic I. G. Stephens, with inseription on half-title :— ee To Frederic G. Stephens from his old friend D. G. Rossetti. Xmas 1861.’’ 2350 ———— The Early Italian Poets. Another Copy. FIRST EDITION. Thick post 8vo, o7iginal cloth, uncut London, 1861. £3 3s PRIVATELY ISSUED. 2352 ———— Hand and Soul. FIRST EDITION. F’cap. 8vo, o7iginal prinied wrzpper.