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[Rossetti,Dante Gabriel] Privately Printed in Broca Binding: Hand and Soul.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel.

Privately Printed[1869]

First Separate Edition. 12mo. Bound in full dark maroon morocco, raised bands on spine, gilt lettering on spine, gilt dentelles and marbled endpapers by L. Broca (fine condition), french bookbinder who, among other things, did finish work for Sarah Prideaux. This is the scarce first separate edition of Hand and Soul (see following), 22pp. including printed cover wrapper, half-title, and additional sheets bound-in at end. William Michael Rossetti states in 1905, "Hand and Sould was excluded, as being prose, from Rossetti's volume of Poems (1870)... various copies of Hand and Soul were done up in a drab wrapper, and he gave some away, but never sold them. These copies appear to be the same printing as in the Poems privately printed, but the pagination is altered, and runs from p.1 to 22 [as our copy] and at the close is printed 'Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1850' [also present in our copy]. From time to time, copies of Hand and Soul, in this form, have turned up for sale, and have commanded high prices." Fredeman, 23.6 A most scarce and important Rossetti item, made more desirable by the austere, yet tasteful, Broca binding.

Price: $2,250.00Item #354