[ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL]. ROSSETTI, WILLIAM MICHAEL, editor. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. His Family Letters. With a Memoir by William Michael Rossetti. London: Ellis and Elvey 1895. 2 vols., 8vo, original blue cloth, very worn and shaken, cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION, illustrated, WILLIAM HOLMAN HUNT'S WIFE EDITH'S COPY, with her signature on the half-title of vol 1 and with HER EXTENSIVE AND IMPORTANT ANNOTATIONS and markings in pencil throughout vol. 1 (the Memoir part of the work); in addition she has pasted in some clippings and has affixed a card with her inked notes at inside rear cover (partially covering her pencilled notes on the paste-down). In vol. 2 Mrs. Hunt has made a pencilled annotation on p. 120 and has pasted in a 1928 autograph letter signed to her from the son of the Pre-Raphaelite painter Arthur Hughes. Mrs. Hunt's annotations are revealing regarding her husband's relations to the other Pre-Raphaelites; for example (vol. 1, p. 19): "D.G. Rossetti came to WHH [William Holman Hunt] when he lived in Cleveland St. & persisted in urging him to take him as a pupil -- as F. Madox Brown required him to paint still life which bored one of DG's temperment -- so eventually WHH agreed to remove the couch on which he slept in his studio & to hire another room..." Fredeman 24.5. See lot for a Holman Hunt sketch of his wife. (2)