HAND AND SOUL

by Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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18 x 12cm [12mo], in original buff paper wraps w/printed title within a fine-ruled border to fr. cover, [1-3] 4-22  [23-24] pp.  Provenance: J.O. Edwards, w/his label on fr. of enclosing envelope.  On 3 Dec. 1869 Rossetti wrote to William Davies: "I send you with this a little tale written long ago.  I had included it among the poems I am printing, as it is really more a sort of poem than anything else; but coming to the conclusion after all that it looked awkward there I have had a few copies struck off to give away.  I send one for [James] Smetham too when you see him" ("Rossetti Papers" p.492).  T.J. Wise claimed, without authority, that 100 copies were printed, an optimistic figure which disagrees with Rossetti's "a few copies" statement.  "Rossetti ... caused various copies of Hand and Soul to be done up in a drab wrapper; and he gave some of them away, but never sold them.  These copies appear to be the same printing as in the Poems privately printed; but the pagination is altered, and runs from p. 1 to 22, and at the close is printed 'Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1850'.  From time to time copies ... in this form have turned up for sale, and have commanded high prices" (Rossetti 1905, pp.16-17).  "Hand and Soul" was originally published in the 1st number of "The Germ," & after this pamphlet was printed it appeared in the "Fortnightly Review" (Dec. 1870, pp.692-701).  Binding Near-Fine (sl. soiled, & tiny chip to fore-edge of rear wrap); contents Fine.  Slater p.216, Ashley IV 122, Fredeman 23.6, Fennell pp.138-40, Colbeck 8.

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