The collected works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti . Edited with preface and notes by William M. Rossetti In two volumes ...
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (London 1828 - Birchington 1882)
Category
Books
Date
1897
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3138158
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v. . 8vo. (18cm). Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial bookplate (dated 1910), bearing arms of Vane-Tempest-Stewart impaling Chaplin. Banners with motto (1) in Scottish Gaelic ("Tha mo cridhe's an tir nam beann" [My heart is in the land of mountains]), (2) Knowledge is the antidote to fear. Open book entitled "Of gardens by Bacon". Images of a horse and a man. Banner lettered "Edith Castlereagh" around image of Diana Chasseresse [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959), m. in 1899 Charles 7th Marquess of Londonderry]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full brown morocco; gold-tooled in Arts & Crafts floral design; red silk endpapers, gilt edges. Binder's stamp: Bound by Zaehnsdorf Ltd. 1899.
Makers and roles
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (London 1828 - Birchington 1882) William Michael Rossetti (1829-1919)