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Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
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8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description
- Sir Hugh the Heron. A legendary tale,... London: G. Polidori's Private Press, 13 Park Village East, Regent's Park, 1843. (For private circulation only.)
- Paper, ink, leather
4to (205 x 165 mm). Full green morocco by Macdonald, covers elaborately gilt with small floral ornaments at the corners with small red onlays, pastedowns of brown morocco ruled in gilt within turquoise dentelles incorporating floral ornaments, again with red onlays, cream silk endpapers, spine gilt, original plain green wrappers bound in. Morocco case.
First edition. Rossetti's rare first book, written for the most part when he was twelve, but not completed for another two years, when it was printed by his grandfather, Gaetano Polidori, on his small private printing-press. How many copies of these verses were printed is not known. Whatever the number, many of them ended up in the hands of his brother, William Michael Rossetti, who records that "he once got me to destroy a rather considerable stock of copies which remained."
First edition. Rossetti's rare first book, written for the most part when he was twelve, but not completed for another two years, when it was printed by his grandfather, Gaetano Polidori, on his small private printing-press. How many copies of these verses were printed is not known. Whatever the number, many of them ended up in the hands of his brother, William Michael Rossetti, who records that "he once got me to destroy a rather considerable stock of copies which remained."
Provenance
Judge Willis Vickery (bookplate).
Literature
Ashley IV, pp. 108-9; Tinker 1808; CBEL III, 490; CBEL (3) IV, 663.