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A beautiful Riviere binding of Christina Rossetti's poems, selected by Alice Meynell (1847-1922). The collection includes Goblin Market, The Convent Threshold, as well as a selection of devotional poems. Small octavo (148 x 95 mm). Portrait frontispiece with tissue guard. Printed in red and black. Original red calf by Riviere, green morocco label, spine compartments and covers decorated in gilt, turn-ins and edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Housed in publisher's bevelled red cloth slipcase. Ownership ink stamp to rear blank. Spine lightly toned, gilt bright; light rubbing and marking to slipcase: a near-fine copy in like slipcase.