Christina Rossetti Poems
The Gresham Publishing Company, 1910.
Beautiful Golden Age gift book. Second issue, published under the Gresham imprint. 4to. Publisher's olive green cloth, with gilt titles and decorations to cover and spine. Top edge gilt. Pictorial endpapers. Thirty-six tipped-in colour plates, with black and colour line drawings decorating the text throughout. A good copy, with some rubbing to the boards, fresh and bright internally with only slight signs of wear. Ownership ex libris plate to the front free endpapers.
Not only does this book contain most of Rossetti's best loved poetry, it is especially appealing because of the lovely decoration. The illustrations have a mixture of influences: the Pre-Raphaelite period is represented by the use of warm, rich colours, while the art nouveau style is evident in the stylised line drawings.
Originally issued by Blackie in white buckram, this issue was published at around the same time by Blackie's sister company, Gresham, using the same sheets as the Blackie issue with a new title page.
Stock ID: 45860
