The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti, Notes by William Michael Rossetti, 1904

The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti. With Memoir and Notes &c by William Michael Rossetti.

Published by Macmillan and Co., Limited, London. 1904. Printed in Edinburgh. First edition.

A good hardback with full green leather prize binding with tooled gilt decoration and raised bands to gilt tooled spine. Covers are polished green calf leather with Streatham Hill High School roundel to front. Lather to boards sunned and discolored and spine sunned to brown colour on spine. With some bumping, scuffing and wear and some cracking to outer joints near head of spine. Marbled endpapers cracked at inner hinges meaning covers are a little fragile, but text block soundly bound. Prize label with spotting to first pastedown.

Endpapers are spotted. With frontispiece portrait. Text pages are clean and bright with occasional scattered spotting. With marbled edges to text block.

Text in English.

lxxiii + 507pp.

Weight approximately 799g (unpacked).

Approx Dimensions:  

185mm high x 130mm wide x 43mm deep.