Goblin market and other poems

On display

V&A South Kensington
British Galleries, Room 122c

Artist/Maker	Bradbury & Evans (printer) Macmillan & Co. (publisher) Christina Georgina Rossetti (author) Dante Rossetti (illustrator) W. J. Linton (engraver)
Place of origin	London (published)

vii, 192, 16 pages : illustrati
Added title-page and frontispiece, both wood engravings, designed by D. G. Rossetti and cut by W. J. Linton and Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and Co. respectively.

Object details

Categories	National Art Library British Galleries Books
Object type	Book
Title	Goblin market and other poems
Materials and techniques	Paper Ink Printing Wood Engraving
Brief description	Book, 'Goblin market and other poems', by Christina Georgina Rossetti, Cambridge; London: Macmillan & Co., 1862.
Physical description	vii, 192, 16 pages : illustrati Added title-page and frontispiece, both wood engravings, designed by D. G. Rossetti and cut by W. J. Linton and Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and Co. respectively.
Dimensions	Height: 180mm
Copy number	Copy A
Gallery label	(15/03/2018) GOBLIN MARKET by Christina Rossetti 1862 The painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti provided woodcuts for his sister's poems, published at five shillings (25p). These poems were moralistic and concerned with temptation, resistance and redemption. They reflected the author's experience working in a refuge for prostitutes. Wood engraved illustration Written by Christina Rossetti (born in London, 1830, died there in 1894); wood engraved illustrations by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (born in London, 1828, died in Birchington-on-Sea, Kent, 1882) Published by Macmillan, Cambridge; printed by Bradbury & Evans, London National Art Library no. 38041800491466
Other number	26.X - NAL Pressmark
Collection	National Art Library
Library number	38041800491466

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Record created	January 23, 2018
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1428119/goblin-market-and-other-poems-book-christina-georgina-rossetti/

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