Binding Design: Goblin Market and other Poems (1865)

The design differs slightly but significantly from the design of the first (1862) edition of CR's book of poems. In the 1865 printing DGR “shortened the two horizontal lines and the outside vertical line so that they meet at right angles about half-an-inch in from the edges of the book. . .stressing the spine's importance as the point of balance between the book's back and front” (Grieve,“Applied Art 2”, 79). CR's publisher Macmillan used the second design on a number of her later books (the editions he published of various volumes in 1875, 1881, 1890, and 1891).

• Fredeman,“Woodman, Spare that Block”, 7-41.
• Grieve,“Applied Art 2”, 79-83.
• Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial , 56.
• DGR: Painter and Poet, Birmingham, 1973, 57 (no. 227).