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Goblin Market and Other Poems.: With two designs by D. G. Rossetti.
by ROSSETTI, Christina
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co.,, 1862. A beautiful copy First edition, in a handsome binding. Goblin Market, a fantastical narrative poem with illustrations by Christina's brother Dante Gabriel, has been interpreted variously as a feminist tract, a capitalist critique, an allegory for drug addiction, and a children's story. "In 1862 her first collection, 'Goblin Market' and other Poems, 'with two designs by D. G. Rossetti', was published under her own name by Macmillan & Co. and was universally praised by reviewers as the herald of a new voice and an original talent. Sales, however, were disappointing... In the twentieth century a great interest has been taken in Freudian interpretations of poems such as 'Goblin Market', and her work, which was previously admired for its innocence and artlessness, has become a hunting-ground for critics and biographers; enlisted as a symbol of repressed female genius, she has had her work scanned for tropes of starvation and sexual guilt" (ODNB). This copy with the second state of signature C, with "anguish" corrected to "aguish" at l. 17 on p. 26, of no significance for issue (Ives A3.1). Octavo (168 x 105 mm). Contemporary blue morocco by Riviere & Son, spine in compartments, each tooled with floral design or lettered in gilt, raised bands ruled in gilt, triple rule frame in gilt to boards, edges ruled in gilt, turn-ins elaborately tooled in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Original blue vertical rib cloth (binding A, no priority) bound in at end. Frontispiece and illustrated title vignette by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Illuminated bookplate of fine binding collector Christine Alexander Graham (1888-1959) on the front pastedown. Spine and board edges darkened, a near-fine copy, contents fresh. Ives A3.1.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 155063
- Title
- Goblin Market and Other Poems.
- Author
- ROSSETTI, Christina
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co.,
- Date Published
- 1862
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Top Edge Gilt
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