William Rossetti Preface (16 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Navy blue cloth boards. Inner hinges are cracked. Scuffing on the edges of the spine, a little wear on the corners of the cover. No jacket. Old Gift inscription inside.

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.

Condition: Very Good. 1892. New edition. Hardback. Good clean copy with a little age & shelf wear. Uncut pages, text is clear and crisp. Lacking dj, remains very good. . . . .

Condition: Very Good. 1892. New edition. Hardback. Good clean copy with a little age & shelf wear. Uncut pages, text is clear and crisp. Lacking dj, remains very good. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-library. Ex-library copy with labels on the spine and front cover and bookplate on the front endpaper. Book is slightly cocked. Covers have very slight wear to the outer corners and spine ends. ; With frontis portrait.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Blue Cloth boards with gilt titles to spine and gilt blocked double frame to front and rear, 195 x 130 mm approx. Bible black end papers, xxxii + 380 pp + 4 of publisher's adverts. Full portrait frontis with tissue guard.Reprint of the One volume edition 1895. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. VG (Book- moderate general shelf wear, slight compression bow to rear board- not creased, negligible soiling, name and address of a previous owner in pencil to half title and some pencil notes from a reading to 4 or 5 leaves providing information as to inspiration and critical comment from contemporaries which add rather than detract. Binding sound with no other notable defects).…

Original Boards. A New Edition in One Volume. extremities scuffed; spine edges cut and a couple of cuts to sides of spine. inner hinges cracked, o/w clean and still firm. the Bookplate of " Barbara & Nicolas Bentley " pasted to front pastedown. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Condition: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original Wedgwood blue cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back, twin gilt lines to the perimeters of front and rear boards, charcoal black lining papers. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains attractive tissue-guarded etched portrait frontispiece, (xxxi)-blank, 380 + iv pp. In Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. POETRY, VERSE & RHYMES.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illus. with b.w. frontis. 8vo. orig. cl. Bds. and spine slightly marked, generally v.g.

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).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. A New Edition in One Volume. Book measures 23x15.5.cm. xxxi, 380pp, 2pp catalogue. Bound in period quarter vellum, title lettering on spine. Cloth lightly rubbed, some wear on corners of boards, vellum dust marked. Binding in good firm condition. Internally, private library stamp on endpaper. Pages in very good clean condition. A good solid copy. Size: 8vo. …

New edition. Two volumes Cloth just a very little marked and rubbed in places, but gilt design in particularly clean and bright state; bookplate to front paste down end-paper of Volume I Original dark blue cloth with elaborate gilt design to spine and covers, pale blue decorated end-papers.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket, As Issued. New Edition. New edition in one volume, xxxii, 380 pp. In fine Riviere & Son signed binding of olive crushed morocco, marbled end papers, all edges gilt, ornate gilt inner dentelles, the bookplate of Henry Sanderson Furniss, the first Baron Sanderson, English educator and socialist politician. Bookplate designed by G. Powell in 1913. Near Fine, morocco at spine toned to an even and rich brown. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.…

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. …