first edition
1894 · Hammersmith
by [Kelmscott Press] Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1894. First thus. Very Good +. One of 310 copies on paper (six copies on vellum were also produced). Original full limp vellum binding. Octavo. xii, 197 pp. Printed by William Morris in red and black with a large engraved double-page title and many elaborate initials throughout. Spine titled in gilt. Rubbing and some browning to binding. Original fore-edge ties clipped. Ink ownership signature, dated 1958, to front free endpaper. A Very Good+ copy, bright and fresh throughout.
This is the second collection of Rossetti's poems issued by the Kelmscott Press, following the 1893 edition of Ballads and Narrative Poems (truncated)
This is the second collection of Rossetti's poems issued by the Kelmscott Press, following the 1893 edition of Ballads and Narrative Poems (truncated)