Binding Design: Ballads and Sonnets (1881) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 Binding Design: Ballads and Sonnets (1881) DGR 1881 The image of the binding is from a copy of the book in the library of Jerome McGann. Plain, dull-green, smooth cloth boards. Design blocked in gold on upper and lower covers and spine. Light, blue-green end papers blocked in indigo. 7 4/5 x 5 2/5 in. <artist/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnpictorial> <citnmythic> <name/> <culture/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnmythic> <citnhistorical> <event/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnhistorical> <citnautobiographical> <name/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnautobiographical> <citnscenic> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnscenic> </listcitn> </source> <commentaries> <head>Commentary</head> <section type="intro"> <head>Introduction</head> <p>Except for the title lettering on the spine, DGR carried over the same binding design to this volume from the one he had made for his 1870 volume of<xref doc="a.sa122.1-1870.rap"> <title level="wrk"> <hi rend="i">Poems</hi> . This book thus appeared in a uniform binding design with its companion volume issued the same year, the 1881 New Edition of <hi rend="i">Poems</hi> . The endpapers for this book are also the same as those he created for the 1870 book.

The binding design for the de luxe edition of this volume also repeats the designs of the de luxe editions of the other two books issued in 1870 and 1881.

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Fredeman, “Woodman, Spare that Block” , 7-41. Grieve, “Applied Art 2” , 79-83.