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ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL. 1828-1882.Five items of secondary material on Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his work: 1. Mourey, Gabriel. Rossetti et Les Preraphaelites Anglais. Paris: Librairie Renouard, Henri Laurens ca. 1909. Publisher's wrappers, with red designs, lettered in black. Full-page photographs of paintings by Pre-Raphaelite artists. 2. Rossetti, Helen M. The Life and Work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti London: The Art Journal Office, 1902. Publisher's cloth, central gilt emblem and gilt lettering to cover, gilt edges, illustrated yellow endpapers. 3. Rossetti Family. Bound collection of Dante Gabriel Rossetti related material, morocco-backed pebbled cloth, "Dante Gabriel Rossetti" on spine: a) excerpt from "Life of William Blake " b) Gallery No. V, Exhibition Catalogue, 1883, 29 pp, annotated (with pencil references to each entry), of DGR paintings, with copious and detailed notes in the description explaining composition, history of painting, etc. c) Catalog of the Remaining Works of the Painter ... Dante Gabriel Rossetti ... Christie, Manson & Woods, May 12, 1883. 19 pp, with reference numbers in marginalia (pencil). d) Catalogue... Pictures in Oil ... formed by that well-known amateur, William Graham April 2 and 8, 1886, containing copious paintings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones with detailed descriptions and explanations in each entry. 4. Baildon, H. Bellyse, ed.] The Round Table Series. Edinburgh: William Brown 1887. Publisher's green cloth, cover stamped in black. Contains long essays on Rossetti, Ruskin, Elliot and a few others. Essay on Rossetti's appears at end, and was the work of Peter Walker Nicholson 5. Tirebuck, William [Edward]. Dante Gabriel Rossetti His Work and Influence. London: Elliot Stock, 1882. Publisher's dark green cloth, gilt, gilt edges, cream endpapers. The first book-length study of Dante Gabriel Rossetti as a painter-poet. Fredeman lists the title (30.1), but it is one of his rare, unannotated entries, indicating he never saw a copy. Extremely scarce. Jerome McGann in his book, "Victorian Connections," gives this fascinating report regarding the book's reception by his Watts: "...published in October ... William had not involvement. Watts was furious that his proprietary claims were being usurped, and, calling Tirebuck an 'ass' and his book a 'baby-like production,' warned William that 'a lot of fellows will scribble about him and vulgarize his name.'" However, McGann goes on to add, "but William could not have but been that the unknown author had referred to Dante Gabriel as 'the most influential of the much-talked-of Brotherhood."