HAND & SOUL by Rossetti, Dante Gabriel - 1899

(Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1899. leather, raised bands, title gilt-stamped on spine, gilt fillet border on boards, top edge gilt. Mosher, Thomas B.. 32mo. leather, raised bands, title gilt-stamped on spine, gilt fillet border on boards, top edge gilt. 54, (2) pages. Limited to 450 copies.( Bishop 157-8). Spine chipped, with some cracking and loss along the lower spine. Private exlibris stamp in ink on the front free endpaper. Reprint from the January 1850 issue of The Germ. Preface by the publisher. Ranson notes this work "was advertised as a 'facsimile reprint' of the Kelmscott Press edition, part of which was published in America by Way and Williams." Decorated initials and red marginal notes. Rebound, note binding information in Bishop 158 and note on free endpaper "with much love from the binder and Eva," dated Christmas 1902. Boards scuffed at edges and along spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown.