GOBLIN MARKET AND OTHER POEMS (1st and 2nd Editions)

vii + 192 + 16pp publisher’s catalogue. 2^nd Edition lacks publisher’s catalogue, but otherwise similar pagination. Frontispieces and illustrations on title pages. Hardcover bindings with gilt lettering to spines, gilt tooling and inlaid lines on front boards. First edition in very good condition, slight rubbing to boards and spine, minor bumps to corners of boards, slight shelfwear to top and tail of spine, binder’s label on rear pastedown, light creasing to rear endpaper, slight foxing throughout, but most prominent on first few pages. Light splitting to gutter between front pastedown and endpaper. Text clean, well bound. Second edition in fair condition, rubbing and edgewear to boards, closed tears to hinges, previous owner’s bookplate on front pastedown, binder’s label on rear pastedown, stains to tops of pages, endpapers and pastedowns, some pages more affected than others. Splitting to gutters between endpapers, pastedowns, and several pages.

Lot of the first edition published 1862 and the second edition published 1865.

‘Goblin Market and Other Poems is English writer Christina Rossetti's first volume of poetry, published by Macmillan in 1862. It contains her famous poem "Goblin Market" and others such as "Up-hill", "The Convent Threshold", and "Maude Clare." It also includes the poem 'In the Round Tower at Jhansi, 8 June 1857', in which a British army officer takes his wife's life and his own so that they do not have to face death at the hands of the rebelling soldiers, commemorating the Jhokan Bagh massacre at Jhansi. Christina's brother, founding Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood member Dante Gabriel Rossetti, designed the frontispiece and title page illustrations in the first edition, as well as the minimal blue binding. Christina was aware that her brother's "commercial savvy and artistic skill" helped make her first volume of poetry a success.’ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goblin_Market_and_Other_Poems)

Size: 12mo (17,5 x 11,5cm)

London: Macmillan and Co. 1862 & 1865