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Binding Design: Poems [De Luxe edition] [2]

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1870

Physical Description

Medium: White buckram on boards. Design blocked in gold on upper and lower covers and spine. White end-papers blocked in yellow-orange.
Dimensions: 8 1/10 x 5 2/5 in.

Production Description

Production Date: 1870

Provenance

Current Location: British Museum

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

This is the de luxe limited edition of DGR's book, a binding design he used for the de luxe editions of his two 1881 volumes as well (see the binding design for the Ballads and Sonnets .

Bibliography

  • DGR: Painter and Poet, Birmingham, 1973, 58 (no. 232).
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
File Name: sa123.1-1870.rap.xml