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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Substantial 8vo.pp. 188. Two volumes bound together: 'Dante Gabriel Rossetti 'by F.G. Stephens, and 'Fair Women in Painting and Poetry' by William Sharp. Decorative Art Nouveau-style bookplate of William S. Argent on front paste down. Original publishers half green leather binding with blue marbled sides, lettered gilt at spine. Matching blue marbled end papers. Black and white drawings and reproductions of paintings. Frontispiece b/w reproduction of Rosetti's painting 'Prosperine.' /Frederic George Stephens (10 October 1827 Ð 9 March 1907) was a British art critic, and one of the two 'non-artistic' members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He communicated the aims of the Brotherhood to the public and became Art Critic and later Art Editor of the Athenaeum, 1860Ð1901. He also wrote for journals on the continent and the United States Ð notably, the pro-Pre-Raphaelite journal The Crayon, from 1856Ð1859. His contributions to the Brotherhood's magazine The Germ were made under the pseudonyms Laura Savage and John Seward. During this time he was heavily influenced by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, whom he allowed to write reviews of his own work under Stephens's name. Very good. Slight rubbing.