The author’s proofs of the first edition of Dante and his Convito, in which William Michael Rossetti presented literal translations from the Convito side by side with those that rendered the ‘sense which Dante has put on them’. Dedicated to his father, a Dante scholar and obsessive, it was apparently published by Elkin Matthews on the recommendation of Ezra Pound. Though unannotated, this copy is marked at the beginning of many gatherings as a proof or ‘1st rev[ise]’, and is designated ‘Revises’ in his manuscript index to the volume.

Swinburne, a close friend of the Rossettis, sent Christina Rossetti a copy of Tristram of Lyonesse in July 1882 – could this leaf with autograph corrections have been extracted from that copy?

Terza’s Piccioni is one of 30 copies for private distribution; we have not been able trace a copy in institutional libraries. F. W. Tancred was the great-grandson of Felicia Hemans, an edition of whose poetry was published by William Michael Rossetti; this rare collection of his Poems was published in part to raise funds for a memorial cot in Hemans’s name at the Royal Waterloo Hospital (Library Hub shows copies at BL and Senate House only). Tommaso de Angelis (‘Giuseppe Fanchiotti’) went on to publish a biography of Gabriele Rossetti in 1904. Of this very rare London-printed work there are copies at BL and Oxford Brookes only in Library Hub.