ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel. Poems, London, F.S. Ellis, 1870, 8°, presentation copy, half title signed and inscribed 'To Fredk. J. Shields from his friend D.G. Rossetti. April 1870' with unsigned pencil sketch at rear by (?) Shields (some light soiling), original cloth blocked in gilt from a design by Rossetti (extremities rubbed).

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ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel. Poems, London, F.S. Ellis, 1870, 8°, presentation copy, half title signed and inscribed 'To Fredk. J. Shields from his friend D.G. Rossetti. April 1870' with unsigned pencil sketch at rear by (?) Shields (some light soiling), original cloth blocked in gilt from a design by Rossetti (extremities rubbed).

拍品专文

A presentation copy to a keen follower of the Pre-Raphaelites, the illustrator Frederick James Shields (1833-1911).