Signed book: Ballads and Sonnets. First edition. London: Ellis and White, 1881. Hardcover, 5.5 x 7.725, 335 pages. Signed and inscribed on the half-title page in ink, “E. Burne-Jones, from his old friend, D. G. Rossetti, 1881.” Burne-Jones’s bookplate is affixed to the front pastedown, as is a later owner’s. Autographic condition: very good. Book condition: VG-/None. Dark blue-green cloth-covered boards with ornate stamped gilt decoration; edges worn, with small chips in cloth at corners and spine-ends; spine slightly darkened; moderately shelf-cocked; several interior hinges cracked, with signatures pulling from textblock; light scattered foxing (mostly to textblock edges and first/last few pages). Rossetti and Burne-Jones were two leading figures of the Pre-Raphaelite artistic movement—an excellent association copy. Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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