Dante Gabriel Rossetti [?], cover for William Michael Rossetti’s ‘Fine Art, Chiefly Contemporary’ (original) (raw)

Cloth binding for ‘Fine Art, Chiefly Contemporary’

Dante Gabriel Rossetti [?]

1867

Cloth binding

7¾ x 5 inches

This cover could be by Dante Rossetti. Its simplification generally recalls his other bindings; however, the repetition of Macmillan’s device in a series of roundels seems unlike the sort of imagery the other-worldly artist would endorse.

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Photograph and text by Simon Cooke

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