Presentation Verse, From the Rossetti Library
BUNAND, Antonin.
Plein air. Poésies … Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1887.
[bound with:]
ROSSETTI, Gabriele. Roma verso la metà del secolo decimonono. Considerazioni … London, Richard and John Taylor, 1840.
[and with:]
[AFAN DE RIVERA, Maria Giuseppa.] La C[ittadina] Giardiniera G. A. D. R. ai gloriosi Giovannetti della patria [and] L’invito e i voti … [Naples, 1820.]
[and one other.]
Various locations, 1820-1890,
Four works 8vo, Bunand: pp. 213, [3]; Rossetti: pp. xiii, [1]; Rivera: pp. [4]; [4]; bound in half green morocco, rubbed; manuscript index in the hand of William Michael Rossetti to front endpaper, with his ownership inscription and that of his daughter Mary Elizabeth Madox Rossetti (dated 1919).
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Plein air. Poésies … Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1887.
[bound with:]
ROSSETTI, Gabriele. Roma verso la metà del secolo decimonono. Considerazioni … London, Richard and John Taylor, 1840.
[and with:]
[AFAN DE RIVERA, Maria Giuseppa.] La C[ittadina] Giardiniera G. A. D. R. ai gloriosi Giovannetti della patria [and] L’invito e i voti … [Naples, 1820.]
[and one other.]
Presentation copy of Bunand’s Plein air, an uncommon collection of verse dedicated to Prudhomme and others; this copy was inscribed to William Michael Rossetti in 1889, and later bound with other works including one by his father.
The poet and critic Bunand was in London in 1889, when he lunched with Rossetti’s friend Mathilde Blind, Arthur Symons, and William Sharp.
Plein air is bound here with the scarce dated London edition of Gabriele Rossetti’s essay on contemporary Rome and the Catholic church (Giannantonio 64; copies at BL, Lambeth, Harvard, Princeton, and Huntington only), and with two very rare patriotic poems by Maria Giuseppa Afan de Rivera, published during the Neapolitan Revolution of 1820. The Giardiniere were a female equivalent of the Carbonari, the revolutionary secret society of which Gabriele Rossetti was a founder – these verses were likely brought by him when he went into exile from Naples in 1821, first in Malta and then in London. BL only in OCLC and Library Hub.