[JOHNSON, LIONEL]. ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA. Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress and Other Poems. London: Macmillan 1879. Small 8vo, original light brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, gilt-lettered (binding designed by D.G. Rossetti), rebacked with original spine laid down, two corners a bit worn, cloth slipcase. Reprint of the first collected edition of 1875, 4 illustrations after Dante Gabriel Rossetti, LIONEL JOHNSON'S COPY, WITH SEVEN CHRISTINA ROSSETTI POEMS WRITTEN OUT BY HIM, and with his bookplate. The poems, gathered from other sources, comprise some 128 lines in Johnson's hand (in addition to the titles and Rossetti's initials at the end of each poem) and are written in ink on flyleaves and blank pages of the book. See Fredeman 44.8 for the 1875 edition. Paul Lemperly's copy with his bookplate and page of notes by him describing this book tipped in at front endpaper.

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[JOHNSON, LIONEL]. ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA. Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress and Other Poems. London: Macmillan 1879. Small 8vo, original light brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, gilt-lettered (binding designed by D.G. Rossetti), rebacked with original spine laid down, two corners a bit worn, cloth slipcase. Reprint of the first collected edition of 1875, 4 illustrations after Dante Gabriel Rossetti, LIONEL JOHNSON'S COPY, WITH SEVEN CHRISTINA ROSSETTI POEMS WRITTEN OUT BY HIM, and with his bookplate. The poems, gathered from other sources, comprise some 128 lines in Johnson's hand (in addition to the titles and Rossetti's initials at the end of each poem) and are written in ink on flyleaves and blank pages of the book. See Fredeman 44.8 for the 1875 edition. Paul Lemperly's copy with his bookplate and page of notes by him describing this book tipped in at front endpaper.