The house of life
By: by Dante Gabriel Rossetti ; now for the first time being given in its full text
Publisher: Copeland and Day
Published: 1894
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 119
Notes: "Five hundred copies on French handmade paper, and fifty copies with rubricated initials on on Michallett paper."

Text of p. 1 within decorative border; publisher's device of wreath and lilies on title page; printer's armorial device below colophon; decorative initials throughout.

Initial letters designed by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue.

Purchase; Brattle Book Shop; 24 September 2002; 2002HP-145; A. Lowell fd., Hofer Trust fd.; Bought with *2002HP-1.

From the library of University Press, Cambridge, Mass., with the publisher's inscription on front free flyleaf: "For Messsrs John Wilson & Sons, with the hopes that their part in this little book will grow more pleasing in their eyes and not be considered an offence to good craftsmanship.  From the publishers, Copeland and Day.  22 January 1894."

Bound in original ivory boards, ivory printed wrapper; in protective case, 22 cm.