Sister Helen; a ballad by Dante G. Rossetti

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8vo. pp. [1]-17, [1]. Morocco. Bookplate of Edmund Gosse on front paste-down endpaper. Two letters to Edmund Gosse bound in (see Fr#s 856-7). A forgery by Thomas James Wise (1859-1937) from the library of Edmund Gosse, a (wrongly) suspected collaborator, with a letter from Wise to him bound in, discussing recent prices fetched and W.M. Rossetti’s ‘authentication’ of the book (London, 1903, Fr# 856 in this collection), as well as a letter from “D. G. Rossetti” to Gosse (London, 1870, Fr# 857), thanking him for the gift of Madrigals, Songs, and Sonnets, the (joint) first volume of verse by Gosse and J.A. Blaikie, and discussing his favorite pieces. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.