Title: Sister Helen; a ballad by Dante G. Rossetti
Description: <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. pp. [1]-17, [1]. Morocco. Bookplate of Edmund Gosse on front paste-down endpaper. Two letters to Edmund Gosse bound in (see Fr#s 856-7).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">A forgery by Thomas James Wise (1859-1937) from the library of Edmund Gosse, a (wrongly) suspected collaborator, with a letter from Wise to him bound in, discussing recent prices fetched and W.M. Rossetti’s ‘authentication’ of the book (London, 1903, Fr# 856 in this collection), as well as a letter from “D. G. Rossetti” to Gosse (London, 1870, Fr# 857), thanking him for the gift of Madrigals, Songs, and Sonnets, the (joint) first volume of verse by Gosse and J.A. Blaikie, and discussing his favorite pieces.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4103552" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>