[Rarebooks] FS: W. M. Rossetti's copy of William Wordsworth's PETER BELL, 1819

[Charles Agvent]

One of many interesting Wordsworth items in stock.

WORDSWORTH, William [ROSSETTI, William Michael]. PETER BELL, A TALE IN 
VERSE. London: Strahan and Spottiswoode, 1819. Second Edition. Bound in 
contemporary plain brown wraps, complete with half-title page, engraved 
frontispiece by J. C. Bromley, and four pages of terminal ads. William 
Michael Rossetti's copy INSCRIBED on the half-title page: "To/WM 
Rossetti/from/J. Deffett Francis" with the date 1876 added in another 
hand. Also, in Rossetti's hand SIGNED with his initials on the first 
blank: "Written by John Hamilton Reynolds--/In Shelley's Peter Bell 3, 
this counts as/being Peter Bell 1./W.M.R./1905." John Deffett Francis 
was an artist, collector, and critic. Laid in is an old bookseller's 
description with an added ink note in an unknown hand: "from Messrs. H. 
Sotheran & Co.'s list of books/from the library of the late Willm 
Michael Rossetti/November 1921." The front wrap, which is cleanly 
detached, has in large lettering the title, author, and date of 
publication, possibly in Rossetti's hand. Near Fine. 	$2,000.00

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