1 vol.
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. Poems. London: F.S. Ellis, 1870. First published edition. 8vo, orig. gilt floral & circular decorated blue green cloth, gilt-lettered & decorated spine; edges untrimmed; corners slightly bumped, minor edge wear. Floral decorated endpapers. Early owner's ink signature at head of title-page, pencil annotations on verso of dedication page & head of first contents page, otherwise internally clean. 4 pp adverts. Bright, attractive copy.
Rossetti exhumed the only manuscript of his Poems in 1869 from the grave of his wife & the most famous of the Pre-Raphaelite models, Elizabeth Siddal, who had died of a laudanum overdose in 1861.