[Rossetti Family- Bound with Many Holograph Notes and Inscriptions, Rare Extracts] Rare Rossetti Family Owned Books, Journals, Extracts, Gabriele Rossetti-Owned, and Important T. G. Hake "The World's Epitaph," with holograph details on title-page

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel [and others]

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Contains the excessively scarce book by Thomas Gordon Hake, "The World's Epitaph: A Poem." London, Privately Printed, 1866, 128pp., inscribed in pencil, "Sent with initials, T.G.H. 1866." and below the title, "By T. G. Hake, Author of Vates," in pen, both presumably by Hake. In a letter to Hake from DGR, dated October, 1869, Dante says, "I have read and partly re-read the first 50 pages of the "World's Epitaph"- i.e. in its origianl arrangement in the copy for which I have to thank you. It seems tome that the new arrangement indicated in the other copy you have so kindly sent is decidedly a great gain. "The Trial of the Bishop of Natal." Signed by WMR. "Manuel Annuaire de la Sante Medicine et Pharmacie," Signed (cropped at top) by Gabriele Rossetti ("Rossetti, 1848"). Scarce 18th Century, "Vita Dis. Giosafat," printed in Bassano by famed printer Remondini, surely owned by Gabriele Rossetti and passed down, complete 63pp. with superb full-page woodcut illustration, and containing 15 additional half-page woodcut illustrations. The volume is inscribed by WMR on the front free endpaper. With five-item holograph 'contents' page by WMR. Seller Inventory # 3969

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