KELMSCOTT PRESS: ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel.

£2,750 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Hand and Soul. First Kelmscott edition, one of 525 copies on paper. In Hand and Soul, Rossetti meditates on aesthetics and spirituality through a narrative about the artistic development and mystic experiences of Chiaro dell'Erma, a fictional young painter in 13th-century Italy.The story was originally printed in the first issue of the Pre-Raphaelite magazine The Germ in 1850. This copy is from the American issue, distributed by Chicago publisher W. Irving Way.

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