Lot 286
  • 286

Rossetti, Christina

Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 USD
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Description

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Speaking Likenesses. London: Macmillan and Co., 1874



8vo (7 x 5 ¾ ins; 180 x 122 mm). Illustrations by Hughes. Publisher's second-issue binding of gilt-titled blue cloth in the rare pictorial dust-jacket; minor gutter browning to endpapers; negligible chipping to ends of jacket spine panel. [With:] A copy in first issue binding of gilt deep blue pictorial cloth reproducing Hughes illustration on upper cover; some rubbing at extremities.

Condition

minor gutter browning to endpapers; negligible chipping to ends of jacket spine panel.
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Catalogue Note

First editions, both the first and second issue bindings; the latter in an unusually fine example of a rare jacket.