Pre Raphaelites, Signed (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. [Flat signed by author on title page] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. 160 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 x 26 cm. *Autographed by author.* A look at the lives of the Pre-Raphaelite painters, which draws on letters, diaries, paintings, designs and poetry to explore their artistic aspirations and achievements. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover 1989, 1st edition. Inscribed and signed by the author Gay Daly. Price clipping to DJ. Dust jacket and boards in fine condition. Binding firm. Pages unmarked and clean. (468 pages). Inscribed by Author(s).

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Jerome McGann to his former teacher Cecil Y. Lang, scholar/editor/author. As usual with his books, Lang found typos and usage errors and has made three pencil corrections to McGann's essay. Very Good, internally clean (except for the corrections), solid paperback. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Good. 1996. Limited Edition. 391 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations and three limited edition wood engravings. Copy 93 from 100. Flat signed by author to title page. Slipcase. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Slipcase has light edge wear with minor markings to panels.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Black cloth gilt, DW, small 4to., xviii, 391 pages, over 230 illustrations. Affectionately inscribed by the author to William E. Fredeman ("Dick") at the title-page and bearing Fredemans extensive annotations and comments in pencil. Else, a near fine copy in a near fine DW, in archival mylar. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Signed by author with dedication. Book is in very good condition with illustrations throughout. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. xvii 234 pages, indexed, in slipcase. Overseas customers please note the book weighs over a kilo and bwill attract additional postage. "William Michael Rossetti (25 September 1829 - 5 February 1919) was an English writer and critic. Born in London, Rossetti was a son of immigrant Italian scholar Gabriele Rossetti and his wife Frances Rossetti née Polidori; he was the brother of Maria Francesca Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Christina Georgina Rossetti. He was one of the seven founder members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848, and became the movement's unofficial organizer and bibliographer. He edited the Brotherhood's literary magazine The Germ which published four issues in 1850. Rossetti wrote the poetry reviews for this magazine." (Wikipedia). Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Campbell Grant (illustrator). 1st Edition. Red buckram with black and gilt lettering and gilt flame decorations to boards. Minor bump to head of spine. Lengthy personal inscription signed by Armour on the front endpaper to MGM exec. Barrett Kiesling and his wife, Lill, dated 1969. Also the 1969 NY Times book review clipped and folded neatly in an envelope. Small darkened strip on front endpaper from inserted enveliope. Barrett Kiesling's mailing label neatly adhered to endpaper. Text is otherwise clean and white, no marks. Illustrations throughout by Campbell Grant. Unclipped DJ with $4.50 price shows sunning to spine, minor edgewear with tiny chips at head and heel of spine. "Takes us on a wild romp through English literature from Caedmon, Beowulf, and Chaucer to Shaw, Galsworthy, and T.S. Eliot. What he does with and to such authors as Spenser, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Johnson, Burns, Wordsworth, Keats, Carlyle, Browning, Thackeray, and Rossetti, to mention a few, will have to be read to be believed, and will probably not be believed even then." (from the cover). Inscribed by Author(s).

Condition: Very good. First Edition. Large 8vo. 21 pp., 82 lots. Illustrated issue, complete with 5 plates not found in ordinary issues. Original printed wrapper (to the upper cover is affixed Maggs Bros. label soliciting bids). Loosely inserted is a reproduction of the price-list and buyers' names. IMPORTANT BUT LITTLE-KNOWN SALE CATALOGUE OF PRE-RAPHAELITE PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS, AND MANUSCRIPTS BELONGING TO SWINBURNE AND TO ROSSETTI'S FRIEND AND FORMER ASSISTANT, WATTS-DUNTON. The full title of the catalogue shows that the sale contained "important drawings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, a self- portrait by Ford Madox Ford, drawings of Rossetti and his house in Cheyne Walk by Henry Treffrey Dunn; an extensive and interesting autograph correspondence from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to his studio assistant, H. Treffry Dunn; H. Treffry Dunn's autograph ms. "Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his circle"; an unrecorded proof of a Byron engraving presented to Watts-Dunton by Swinburne; old master paintings and Whistler etchings; Swinburne's cherished bronze of Victor Hugo; furniture and works of art, including mirrors and a cabinet painted by Dunn with copies from Rossetti's works, some now lost; signed and presentation books, photographs and relics." Jorge L. Contreras explains: "Rossetti met Theodore Watts-Dunton, a solicitor, poet and critic, in the autumn of 1872, when the artist returned to London following a brief convalescence in Scotland. [.] By 1876-77, Watts-Dunton was among Rossetti's closest friends and companions." Watts-Dunton was also Rossetti's studio assistant. -- SOURCE: "Re-identification of Picture for a Story by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82) and Henry Treffry Dunn (1838-99)" in: British Art Journal (Autumn 2012), Vol. 13, Issue 2. Our copy belongs to the greatly superior "Illustrated issue," with 5 plates not found in ordinary issues. We have seen various digitized versions, and in all of them the scans of the illustrations are ABYSMAL.