Poems -
Christina Rossetti, Florence Harrison (illustrator), Alice Meynell (introduction)
1910 - Blackie and Son Limited, London Glasgow Bombay - First Edition
An exquisitely Art Nouveau presentation of Rossetti’s lusciously pre-Raphaelite poems, with thirty six mounted colour plates and thirty four black and white illustrations as well as headings and other decorations, by Florence Harrison, and an introduction by Alice Meynell.
One-hundred and ten poems in total, including ‘Goblin Market’, ‘Remember’, ‘Dreamland’, ‘Echo’, and ‘The Prince's Progress’.
‘Where sunless rivers weep
Their waves into the deep,
She sleeps a charmed sleep:
Awake her not.
Led by a single star,
She came from very far
To seek where shadows are
Her pleasant lot.’
Fine, and without the usual foxing or loss of gilt usually encountered. Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) was born in London, one of four children of Italian parents. Her father was the poet Gabriele Rossetti; her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti also became a poet and a painter. She is best known for her ballads and her mystic religious lyrics, her poetry marked by symbolism and intense feeling. Rossetti’s best-known work, Goblin Market and Other Poems, was published in 1862. The collection established Rossetti as a significant voice in Victorian poetry.
‘We buried her among the flowers
At falling of the leaf,
And choked back all our tears; her joy
Could never be our grief.’
Provenance: Contemporary gift inscription from Phylllis Colle, St. Moritz, dated 1912.
Reference: Peppin & Micklethwait, Book Illustrators of the Twentieth Century, 140. Christina Rossetti, www.poets.org.
Quarto (book size 26.8x22cm), pp. xxiv 369 [3]. In publisher’s cream cloth, intricately decorated and lettered in gilt to spine and upper board, light olive colour coated endpapers illustrated and lettered in olive green, top edge gilt others untrimmed. Condition: Fine Ref: 112214 Price: HK$ 9,000
One-hundred and ten poems in total, including ‘Goblin Market’, ‘Remember’, ‘Dreamland’, ‘Echo’, and ‘The Prince's Progress’.
‘Where sunless rivers weep
Their waves into the deep,
She sleeps a charmed sleep:
Awake her not.
Led by a single star,
She came from very far
To seek where shadows are
Her pleasant lot.’
Fine, and without the usual foxing or loss of gilt usually encountered. Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) was born in London, one of four children of Italian parents. Her father was the poet Gabriele Rossetti; her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti also became a poet and a painter. She is best known for her ballads and her mystic religious lyrics, her poetry marked by symbolism and intense feeling. Rossetti’s best-known work, Goblin Market and Other Poems, was published in 1862. The collection established Rossetti as a significant voice in Victorian poetry.
‘We buried her among the flowers
At falling of the leaf,
And choked back all our tears; her joy
Could never be our grief.’
Provenance: Contemporary gift inscription from Phylllis Colle, St. Moritz, dated 1912.
Reference: Peppin & Micklethwait, Book Illustrators of the Twentieth Century, 140. Christina Rossetti, www.poets.org.
Quarto (book size 26.8x22cm), pp. xxiv 369 [3]. In publisher’s cream cloth, intricately decorated and lettered in gilt to spine and upper board, light olive colour coated endpapers illustrated and lettered in olive green, top edge gilt others untrimmed. Condition: Fine Ref: 112214 Price: HK$ 9,000