Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

[One of 25 Copies]. Ballads and Sonnets

London: [Chiswick Press for] Ellis and White, 1881. First Edition. First edition, being one of only 25 large paper copies “for subscribers only.” The second collection of poetry and the last published in Rossetti’s lifetime, given his death the following year. Virtually unobtainable given the limitation.

8vo. xii, 335pp., [2]. W.M. Rossetti 35. Tinker 1819. Fredeman 23.12. Fennell 21. About very good in publisher’s blue paper-backed boards, printed spine label, with splitting and wear along the spine, prior owner inscription to front free endpaper, in a custom clamshell box. Item #284

Price: $2,500.00