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Description

First edition, large paper issue, one of 25 copies. This was the last of Rossetti's works to be published in his lifetime. Octavo (229 x 153 mm). Near-contemporary brown morocco by Zaehnsdorf, with their exhibition-quality gilt stamp to rear pastedown, raised bands to spine, lettered in gilt, turn-ins tooled in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. A fine, untrimmed copy.

About Ballads and Sonnets

This book contains some of Rossetti's most famous pieces, published posthumously in 1881.