[Fine Binding | Douglas Cockerell | Author's Proof Copy w/ Letters] Dante Gabriel Rossetti Roycrofters Printing in red

Printing in red

Virginibus Puerisque: An Essay in Four Parts

Slight rubbing to bottom edge

String-tied cotton paper stock wrapper with illuminated cover illustration

The volume was published with a color engraved portrait frontispiece and 24 tissue-guarded engraved plates

[Fine Binding | Douglas Cockerell | Author's Proof Copy w/ Letters] Dante Gabriel Rossetti Roycrofters Printing in redMarillier, H. C. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. George Bell & Sons, 1899. First edition. The author's proof copy, with unlettered plates noted as such by Marillier in pen on the ffep. (Further details below.) Photogravure frontispiece portrait of Rossetti after Frederick Hollyer, and 99 further plates, one being double page; thirty of which are photogravures on Japan vellum. Bound in full light brown crushed morocco by Douglas Cockerell with covers split