Rossetti Family from Robert Wright Books, ABAC / ILAB

Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, (1996). First edition. Octavo, pumpkin-coloured cloth, pp. xi, 243. Contains a chapter entitled, "Competing Sainthoods, Competing Saints: The Canonization of Christina Rossetti". Also with chapters on Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Shakespeare and Victorian Femininity. A volume in the publisher's Victorian Literature and Culture series. Fine in dust jacket..

London: Williams and Norgate, 1867. First edition. Octavo, publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Maria Rossetti authored a related title, Annedotti Italiani, published the same year, in which the 100 anecdotes were printed in Italian. This is an ex-library copy, with an early slender card pocket on the rear pastedown and call numbers in white enamel… Read more about this item

(London): Hodder & Stoughton, (N.d). 20.4 cm x 14.5 cm, dark green cloth blocked in gilt and with oval portrait labels onlaid on upper board, unpaginated; tipped in colour illustrations. Illustrations to A Day with Rossetti are after Rossetti's own paintings; A Day with William Morris with illustrations by Reginald Frampton; A Day with Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Norman Price.… Read more about this item

Octavo, pp. viii, (ii), 68, 6 plates, 3 text illustrations. Deep green cloth, top edge gilt, remainder uncut. Examines the Moxon Tennyson and the contributions of Rossetti, Millais and Hunt. Indexed. Slight foxing to endpapers, wear to tips of spines and corners, else near fine. Fredeman 88.1.

New York: G.K. Hall & Co., (1992). First edition. Octavo, burgundy cloth, pp. ix, 212. Includes critical responses from Rossetti's contemporaries such as Algernon Charles Swinburne, Robert Buchanan, Frederick W.H. Meyers and Walter Pater. Also with recent critical work by the editor Riede, Anthony H. Harrison and others. A fine copy, as issued without dust jacket..

London: Ellis and Elvey, 1904. Reprint. Royal blue cloth, 8vo. Some staining to rear cover, else very good..

London: Studio Vista, (1975). First edition. Quarto, black boards, pp. 175; numerous illustrations Previous owner's name and date neatly written on endpaper, small tear to head of spine, else very good, lacking the dust jacket. [Oversize*].

New York: New York Public Library, 1952. First edition thus, limited to 500 copies. Deep maroon cloth, stamped in gold, 8vo. With illustrations reproducing the author's holograph manuscript. Slight bump to bottom edge of front board, else near fine..

London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1911). 8vo., grey boards decorated in black and gilt, with pictorial label on upper board, pp. 48; illustrated with five colour plates. A volume in the "Days with he Poets", series. Erasure on pictoral endpaper, spine lettering dull, minor wear to edges and corners, else a very good and attractive example of this book. Fredeman 25.42.… Read more about this item

Berkeley: University of California and Cambridge, 1963. First American edition. Octavo, blue-green cloth, pp. xxi, 166. Near fine in a very good, spine-faded, dust jacket, lacking the price and a large piece of the front inner flap. Fredeman 44.95.

London: Eric and Joan Stevens, 1979. First edition, from an edition of 100 numbered copies. Sewn wrappers, 3 pages only. Production values are minimal, although the item does have a certain charm. Poems by D.G. Rossetti's wife. Fine..

Boston: Little, Brown, 1899. New edition in two volumes. Blue cloth with gilt cover designs, 12mo. Some foxing early and late, spines slightly faded, else a near fine set..

Washington Square: New York University Press, (1995). First paper edition. Trade paperback format, pp. [xxxi], 223. Maude was originally published in London by James Bowden, in 1897. A near fine copy..

Offprinted from the Harvard Library Bulletin, Volume XIX, Number 4. October 1971. Stapled wraps, 10pp. Inscribed by Peattie. Uneven fading to edges of wrappers, else a very good copy..

London: Macmillan & Co., 1882. First edition. Crown octavo, black cloth with Rossetti's attractive monogram in gilt on upper board, pp. vii, 432, [17] appendix. [1] publisher's advert. Wood-engraved frontispiece, "A Sonnet", is a previously unpublished drawing by Rossetti, being an illumination of a poem. Appendix documents 395 paintings and drawings by Rossetti, giving dates, medium and owners. Front and… Read more about this item

London: Duckworth & Co., (1902). First edition. 12mo., variant in publisher's limp red leather [not noted by Harvey who cites green], pp. xv, 192, + [3] publisher's ads; illustrated. A volume in the Popular Library of Art series. Spine darkened and chipped at head, covers and corners worn, else a good copy. Harvey A10a..

London: E. Moxon, Son, & Co., (N.d). Moxon Poets edition. Crown octavo, dark brown decorated cloth, all edges gilt, pp. xxviii, 595. Much reprinted edition, under various imprints. A little foxing early and late, two inch tear in half title page neatly repaired, front hinge paper cracking, rear hinge repaired with Japanese paper, cloth lightly chipped at spine ends, small… Read more about this item

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1933. First Canadian edition. Red cloth, 8vo. This account, presented in the form of a novel, won the Atlantic Book Prize. Fine in a very good dust jacket, with a nickel-sized chip to rear panel. Canadian issue of Fredeman 66.23.

London: Ellis & Elvey, 1903. A new edition in one volume. Original deep blue cloth, 8vo. Very good..

New York: Abbeville, (1989). First edition. Folio, maroon cloth. This book contains beautiful colour plates of Rossetti's paintings. Near fine in dust jacket. [Oversize*].