Rossetti William M Editor (16 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Rossetti was a British poet, illustrator, painter and translator, and a member of the Rossetti family. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. His work also influenced the European Symbolists and was a major precursor of the Aesthetic movement. His early poetry was influenced by John Keats. His later poetry was characterized by the complex interlinking of thought and feeling, especially in his sonnet sequence, The House of Life. Poetry and image are closely entwined in Rossetti's work. He frequently wrote sonnets to accompany his pictures, spanning from The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (1849) and Astarte Syriaca (1877), while also creating art to illustrate poems such as Goblin Market by the celebrated poet Christina Rossetti, his sister. Author's edition. Rare and collectible. Red cloth, gold titles on front and spine, top edge gilt, wide decorative band around both covers and spine. No stated publishing history so presumed first edition, first printing thus. This is a used book. Pages are clean and bright with no markings, notes, or highlighting. No DJ. No owner's marks or bookplates, not ex-library. Binding is tight and square with some staining and fading on boards. Corners not bumped. Hinges are loose on front and back. A good reading copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Not Issued. Burgundy cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine panel cloth tanned; spine extremities rubbed and a bit frayed. Text block edges toned. xxvii,365 pp. Undated reprint, preface dated 1886. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. 1st thus. HB.Cloth. G+. Spine slightly sunned, slight stains on covers, top and bottom of spine bumped, owner's ink signature on ffep. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Norwood Editions, 1979 facsimile reprint of the Macmillan and Co. 1904 edition. Bound in green cloth boards, no dust jacket. Gift inscription on front free endpaper, else unmarked with modest wear.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. New Edition. Original blue cloth, pp.xxxii, 380 + rear ads. New edition in one volume. Frontis portrait. Sixteen page preface. Cloth slightly worn in places but overall clean and bright. Name on half title. Contents clean, tight. VG Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardback. Condition: Good. New hardback edition in one volume, 1891, with no jacket. In overall good used condition with minor signs of age, handling and storage - rubbing to edges and spine darkened, with wear to cloth at spine head and tail. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read, no annotations or inscriptions; toning to page-ends but text bright and clear throughout. Frontispiece portrait of Rossetti retains its tissue-paper guard. Not an old library book. Photograph available.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Blue Cloth boards with gilt titles to spine and gilt blocked double frame to front and rear, 195 x 130 mm approx. Bible black end papers, xxxii + 380 pp + 4 of publisher's adverts. Full portrait frontis with tissue guard.Reprint of the One volume edition 1895. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. VG (Book- moderate general shelf wear, slight compression bow to rear board- not creased, negligible soiling, name and address of a previous owner in pencil to half title and some pencil notes from a reading to 4 or 5 leaves providing information as to inspiration and critical comment from contemporaries which add rather than detract. Binding sound with no other notable defects).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Gift inscription on front free endpaper. No other markings. 3/4 leatherbound.

Edited with preface and notes by William M. Rossetti. In two volumes. Vol II only. Volume II Translations, Prose - Notices of Fine Art. Translations: Dante and his Circle, with the Italian Poets preceeding him, Translations from the Italian, German, and French. Prose: Notices of Fine Art. xl, 521 pp. Blue florally decorated cloth boards. Front hinge partly cracked. Edges untrimmed. Navy blue cloth boards with extensive decorative gilt pattern on both boards and spine. Small section of gilt lightly rubbed on front board. Corners bumped. Overall condition VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Bound in royal blue cloth, gilt titles and line decoration, frontis engraving by Sherbourn intact. ; 8.5" x 6"; 380 pages.

Condition: Poor. No jacket. Storage wear to extremities. Some small loss at top of spine. Hospital library plate inside front. Tanning and foxing, manily to page edges.

Hardcover w/DJ. Condition: Good/Good. Not Illustrated (illustrator). Author's Edition. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company. Good/Good. 1907. Author's Edition. Hardcover w/DJ. Rare DJ . 12mo., 336 pp., Dj frayed, chipped, shelfwear, writing on ffe, front hinge cracked .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Published by Ellis and Elvey, London in 1895, here is the first hardback printing (in this edition) of The Poetical Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti edited by William M. Rossetti. Blue cloth binding, gilt spine lettering and border decoration, 380 pages plus further reading, the book is in very good condition with a rubbed thumb patch to the front end papers and some light browning throughout. There is also some light rubbing to gthe spine. A super book.

LEATHER SPINE GREEN. Condition: FAIR. A new edition in one volume. Half binding. Five raised band spine. Gilt title and design on spine. Top edge gilt. Front board missing, detached. Decorated end papers. Previous owner's name on front free end paper. Some spotting on frontispiece. Chipping on first few pages. Rough cut pages. Pages and edges browning. Moderate shelf and edge wear. front board missing, spine and corners rubbed. DATE PUBLISHED: 1891 EDITION: 380.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Two volume set, very good tight copies, light wear to edges & corners, owners bookplate inside both vols, age spotting to page edges & lightly in some margins, see photos.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (cover design) (illustrator). First Edition. Hard cover, 8vo, in midnight blue cloth blocked in gilt with three rectilinear fields of twining foliage and flowers to front boards, the design mirrored on the rear boards, and repeated on the spine in two fields above and below the title. The Rossetti-designed cover was "executed by De Lacy." (See below.) This is the "standard cloth binding" rather than the "deluxe" done in leather. Printer: Hazell, Watson, & Viney, London and Aylesbury. Similarly patterned endpapers are printed in navy upon robins egg blue paper. xlii, 528pp. and vi, 521pp. **CONDITION: Near Fine. Boards are unworn with a few very small, light marks as seen. Two very minor corner bumps and one very small dent to upper edge. Gilt remains bright. One tiny visible wear to front joint Vol. II, Hinges in order. Mild age toning to text. Former bookseller notes in pencil to verso of ffep. Vol. I. **Editor WILLIAM MICHAEL ROSSETTI (1829-1919) was the brother of London author, poet and painter DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI (1828-1882), and while employed as an administrator with the Inland Revenue, also documented the various works of the Pre-Raphaelite artist group to which their sister, the poet CHRISTINA ROSSETTI (1830-1894), was also allied. The child of Italian incomers, Rossetti did a number of translations appearing here including Dante's La Vita Nuova (The New Life). An essay on William Blake outlines the artist's admiration of the latter's work integrating prose and art, and including the bold use of color to evoke atmosphere and mood, qualities to which the artist Rossetti was to adapt to his own work. Much here to enjoy for the student of Pre-Raphaelite art and its influence, and potential links between the poetic images and other writings and DGR's paintings, all bound in an object unifying these arts. REFS: Rossetti's cover design is shown in Morris and Levin's "The Art of Publishers' Bookbindings 1815-1915" (2000) No. 119. Watson, 490. Rossetti cover at J.J. McGann (editor), digital Rossetti Archives, Univ. Virginia. Please see our number 9729 for Christina's "Goblin Market." (AMJ). Book.