The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti.

ROSSETTI, Christina Georgina. With a Memoir and Notes by William Michael Rossetti.

Item Number: 111234

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1904.

First edition of Christina Georgina Rossetti’s collected poetical works. Octavo, bound in three quarters vellum with red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait of the author. In near fine condition.

The sister of the founder of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti also wrote various romantic, devotional, and children's poems. Rossetti's most famous collection, Goblin Market and Other Poems, appeared in 1862, when she was 31. It received widespread critical praise, establishing her as the foremost female poet of the time.