Hand and Soul in Italian, From the Rossetti Family Library
[MARTIN, Arthur Patchett.]
The Tennyson Memoir. Shanklin (Isle of Wight), Silsbury Brothers, 1897.
[bound with:]
[ROSSETTIS.] A collection of periodical extracts on the Rossettis and other Pre-Raphaelites, including an Italian translation of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Hand and Soul by his niece Olivia Rossetti Agresti.
1890-1901
Large 8vo, Martin: pp. 23, [1], with numerous half-tone illustrations; Rossettis: variously paginated; bound together in late nineteenth-century half red pebbled morocco, wanting front cover; manuscript index in the hand of William Michael Rossetti to front endpaper; numbered ‘XX'.
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The Tennyson Memoir. Shanklin (Isle of Wight), Silsbury Brothers, 1897.
[bound with:]
[ROSSETTIS.] A collection of periodical extracts on the Rossettis and other Pre-Raphaelites, including an Italian translation of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Hand and Soul by his niece Olivia Rossetti Agresti.
Very rare first edition of Martin’s essay on ‘Tennyson and the Isle of Wight’, published as a literary supplement to the periodical Vectis (1896–1903). This first edition is not in Library Hub or OCLC, which together list a single copy of a second edition at State Library of New South Wales, and reprints of 1898. Martin had commissioned a poem and an article from Chistina Rossetti in 1892 for Literary Opinion.
The other contents of the volume include:
ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel. ‘La Mano e l’anima (Hand and Soul)’ translated by Olivia Rossetti Agresti, from Flegrea, Napoli 1901. Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s niece Olivia (1875–1960), daughter of William Michael Rossetti (whos copy this is), married the anarchist refugee Antonio Agresti in 1897, then followed an unconventional political trajectory which ended in Italian fascism; after she was widowed in 1926 she became a friend of Ezra Pound.
LOW, Frances H. ‘Some Early Recollections of Sir John Everett Millais, Bart., P.R.A.’, from The Strand, 1896. Fredeman 37.38.
CAINE, Lily Hall. ‘A Child’s Recollections of Rossetti’, from New Review, 1894. Fredeman 25.17
RADFORD, Ernest. ‘The Life and Death of “The Germ.”’, from Idler, 1898. Fredeman 73.6.
MEYNELL, Alice. ‘Christina Rossetti’, from New Review, 1895. Fredeman 44.29.
PARKES, Kineton. ‘Ruskin and Pre-Raphaelitism’, from New Century Review, 1900. Fredeman 77.40.
RADICE, Benedetto. Gl’Inglesi nel Risorgimento Italiano. Livorno, 1901. Inscribed to William Michael Rossetti on the initial blank ‘Al Signor Guglielmo Rossetti … il Prof Benedetto Radice cordialmente offre’. Not in Library Hub or OCLC. Gabriele Rossetti is mentioned twice.