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Dante Gabriel Rossetti, endpapers, F. S. Ellis, floral gilt designs, gilt, inscribed, John Skelton, London, poems, presentation copy, Scottish, University of Utah
“The smooth black stream that makes thy whiteness fair, —
Sweet fluttering sheet…”
– from “The Love-Letter”
POEMS
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
London: F. S. Ellis, 1870
First edition, first issue binding
PS5240 A1 1870
University of Utah copy presentation copy inscribed to John Skelton and dated April of 1870. Skelton was a Scottish author and friend of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. This is one of only a few copies personally inscribed to Rossetti’s close friends. Original green cloth boards with gilt title to spine and floral gilt designs by the author on spine and boards. The motif is continued on the endpapers.
Beautiful! And all about writing and words. An ode to love and to itself.
What better to love and how better to love it?