Rossetti: painter & poet / J. B. Bullen
2011, 1st Frances Lincoln Edition. London: Frances Lincoln Limited. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #362340
Physical description: 270 pages: illustrations (chiefly color); 31 cm. Contents:
Revolutionary refugee -- From childhood into youth -- The brotherhood is born -- Enter Elizabeth Siddal as Beatrice -- Found: friendship with Ruskin -- A new brotherhood: Morris and Burne-Jones -- Bocca baciata: "gross sensuality of a revolting kind" -- How they met themselves: reluctant marriage -- The flight from death -- The queen of beauty: Jane Morris -- Lady Lilith and other femmes fatales -- The triangle is formed -- A struggle over Jane Morris -- The fleshly school: publication and collapse -- Proserpine and the return to Kelmscott -- The final salutation of Beatrice. Subjects: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel 1828-1882 Relations with women.
Painters Great Britain; Biography. Pre-Raphaelites Great Britain; Biography.
Poets, English 19th century; Biography.
Price: €50.00