Rossetti William Michael Preface (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Norwood Editions, 1979 facsimile reprint of the Macmillan and Co. 1904 edition. Bound in green cloth boards, no dust jacket. Gift inscription on front free endpaper, else unmarked with modest wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near fine in original light green cloth-covered boards. Sepia frontispiece of Rossetti with tissue guard. Small textual note comparing this edition to the later one corrected by William Michael Rossetti in pencil facing the contents page.

Full Leather. Condition: Good. Full Tree calf leather with five raised bands, gilt decorated compartments, red title slip with gilt titles, 205 x 155 mm approx. Marbled end papers sewn head and tail bands and marbled edges to book block. xx + 460 pp. Laid in Full portrait with tissue guard + unspecified full page b/w illustrations + chapter head and tail vignettes by Thomas Seccombe. Prefatory notice by William Michael Rossetti. Undated circa 1880's. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Good (Restoration - the book was bought in by us with the boards detached, it has been re backed by us with new fray not Irish Linen mull, new Oxford Hollow spine liner, calf leather spine with original laid on, new marble end papers - best match to marbled edges of book block- noticeably different. Brighton College Gilt Device to both boards with prize bookplate dated Xmas 1885 re-pasted to front free end paper to preserve integrity of the original book. There is surface damage to bottom front panel of tree calf. Mild foxing to prelims including guard. No annotations. No other notable defects). THOMAS SECCOMBE (illustrator).…

First edition. First edition. Original white polished buckram with gilt front stylized Rossetti device, gilt lettering on spine. Prefatory note by William Michael Rossetti. The translation was made by DGR in 1844, using the signature "Gabriel Charles Rossetti," at the age of 16. From the William Fredeman Collection, signed, "W. E. Fredeman" in pencil, and beside that, by contemporary owner, "Nov. 16, 1906." Fine. Scarce. Signed.…

4 facsimile pages of the original preliminary matter at the rear of the Rossetti Preface volume, this accompanied by 4 volumes in facsimile of the original periodical, these with tissue-guarded frontispiece etchings by (respectively) W. Holman Hunt, James Collinson, Ford Madox Brown and W.H. Deverell, final pages with offset browning from wrappers, pp. 30, [4], 192 (across four volumes), 8vo, original blue (the Preface) or buff wrappers, some browning and little creased and nicked to overhanging edges, the first volume with small wax-stain to fore-margin of front, the original portfolio of quarter cream and blue boards, browned and spotted with some wear, repaired along hinge, good. The Germ, the manifesto-cum-magazine of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, was not a financial success and ceased publication after four issues. But it was not without influence, and its status as a collectors' item brought about this facsimile, which adds a Prefatory volume by William Michael Rossetti. …