D.G. ROSSETTI by [ Rossetti, Dante Gabriel]: Henderson, Marina - 1973

Academy Editions, Limited. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

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Academy Editions, Limited. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Three pages on thin onion skin paper (see description), 1858. Addressee not named, but not someone unknown to Rossetti. "July 13, /58. My Dear Sir, Pray accept the photograph which I am sending you to-day. I wish it were a better impression. The lines you will probably remember, are by Henry Taylor. I wanted till after the benefit, that I might report it. It was nearly a "decifer," I am glad to say, and your kind efforts bore fruit in more than one direction. Let me thank you from Miss Herbert as well as from myself. Will you excuse this wretched scrap of paper, which is all I can find- and believe me, Dear Sir, Yours sincerely, DG Rossetti." Henry Taylor was a contemporary dramatist and poet, a man of letters who was admired by the Rossetti family. Ruth Herbert, well-known stage actress, was a major early model for Rossetti, who first posed for him in a painting in 1858, the year of this letter. Near fine: a rare survival, given the fragile nature of the onion skin paper which Rossetti used, out of… Read More

Two pages, about 350 words (including cross-outs), written by Dante Gabriel Rossetti on a single octavo sheet, in pencil by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, comprising a draft of a letter in Rossetti's hand, to Hall Caine (Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine) with significant original material, cross-outs, additions and deletions, not appearing in the final published poem, as given in Fredeman's "Correspondences (80.103). AN EXTREMELY RARE EXAMPLE OF A DRAFT LETTER, ALMOST NEVER SEEN BY ROSSETTI, AND OFFERING SIGNIFICANT AND INTERESTING BACK-VIEW OF THE POET/ARTIST'S THINKING. The letter was first alluded to in Hall Caine's "Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti," first published by Eliot Stock, in London, 1882, where Caine states concerning this letter, "The extract from Rossetti's letters with which I shall close this chapter is perhaps the most interesting yet made." Fredeman dates the letter, 28 March, 1880, early on in Rossetti and Caine's loquacious letter-writing exchanges. The lengthy letter deals with… Read More