xxiii, 270 pages, 84 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 35 cm.
General Note
Title-page in red and black.
Publisher's device at centre of title page.
The printer is named on the title-page verso: 'Chiswick Press: Charles Whittingham And Co. Tooks Court, Chancery Lane, London.'
The frontispiece is a portrait of Rossetti after a painting by G.F. Watts RA, printed by the Swan Electric Engraving Company.
Contents
I. Introduction -- II. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood -- III. Work: 1849-1853. Influence of Browning and Dante -- IV. Friendship with Ruskin. Marriage and death of Mrs. Rossetti -- V. Work from 1854-1857 -- VI. Work from 1858-1862 -- VII. Settling at Chelsea, 1862-1868 -- VIII. 1869-1872. Kelmscott, 1872-1874 -- IX. Close of the record. 1874-1882 -- X. Death, April, 1882. Conclusion -- XI. Supplementary notes: Early drawings and caricatures; hand-writing; No. 16 Cheyne Walk and the animals -- Appendix: a chronological list of pictures and drawings, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Pages [231]-266.
Provenance
The front pastedown carries a card on which is written `Presented to the Library of the Royal Academy of Arts by Mr and Mrs Guy Barrington …’
Binding Note
Publisher's dark blue cloth binding. Top endge gitl. Gilt decoration and title to upper cover and spine.