POEMS BY CHRISTINA ROSSETTI 1910 FLORENCE HARRISON ILLUSTRATIONS

POEMS BY CHRISTINA ROSSETTI 1910 FLORENCE HARRISON ILLUSTRATIONS

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[ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA G.]. Poems. With Illustrations by Florence Harrison. Introduction by Alice Meynell. London: Blackie & Son Limited, n.d. [1910].

First edition. Cloth-bound. Hardcover. Quarto (265 x 200 x 55 mm). Pp. xxiv, 369, [3]. English text. Publisher's original cream cloth elaborately gilt decorated. Top edge gilt, other edges uneven. Sectioned into General Poems and Devotional Poems. 36 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue guards, 34 black & white full page illustrations, illustrated endpapers and other letterpress illustrations at poem heads etc. Condition: VERY GOOD. Collated complete. Binding tight, secure and square with the hinges intact, vey minor bumping to spine ends. Cover and contents largely very clean indeed, the plates beautifully preserved. Without previous ownership markings. Scarce thus.

Notes: Delightful art nouveau style edition of Christina Rossetti's poems. 36 tipped in colour plates tipped in on grey art card with titled tissue guards; 34 black & white illustrations tipped in on same white paper stock as the text block; numerous other line drawings & decorations within the text. A simply glorious production. Not only does this book contain most of Rossetti's best loved poetry it is especially appealing because of the lovely decoration. The illustrations have a mixture of influences, the Pre-Raphaelite period is represented by the use of warm rich colours and the Art Nouveau style is evident in the stylised line drawings.

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