The Pre-Raphaelites and their World: A Personal View From Some Reminiscences and Other Writings

Rossetti, William Michael (Angela Thirlwell etc)

Publication Date	1995
Publisher	Folio Society
Binding	Hardback
Condition	Fine copy in very good slipcase
SKU	22796
Notes	Very clean, bright and neat. Very slight wear to slip case.

Description

Hardback, 10.5" x 7.5", 234pp. A selection from the writings of William Michael Rossetti. Beautifully bound in dark purple cloth with gilt and colour decoration designed by David Eccles to front. Frontis is a photograph of William Michael Rossetti by Julia Margaret Cameron. Introduction and Epilogue by novelist Angela Thirwell, granddaughter of Edward Burne Jones. Gilt titles to spine. Well illustrated with black and white, and colour plates including reproductions of paintings, drawings, cartoons and photographs. Fascinating as well as beautiful it gives an insight into the wider Pre-Raphaelite world of the Rossetti family, Ruskin and Morris, Burne-Jones and Millais. Includes focus on the women: Christina Rossetti, Jane Morris, Elizabeth Siddal, Lucy Rossetti with reproductions of some of their work too. Indexed. Red slip case. First edition thus. Erratum slip laid in.

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