and Other Poems
Goblin Market and Other Poems
Macmillan, 1862.
First edition. Original blue cloth, with gilt ruled stylised border to upper cover and gilt titles to the spine. Frontispiece and engraved title page by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. A very good copy indeed, bright with a trace of light wear to the boards and occasional spotting to the text. Contemporary ownership signature on front blank and illustrated title page and stamp embossed on the title.
The author's first published book and defining work. Although Christina Rossetti was never completely a part of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Goblin Market was the first unalloyed literary success the Brotherhood enjoyed, and there is a loose parallel between her fondness for the rhythms of folk songs and the Pre-Raphaelite interest in things medieval.
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