Author: ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA.
Title: Speaking Likenesses. With Pictures Thereof by Arthur Hughes.
Description: London: Macmillan and Co, 1874. 1st edition. Upon the request of her five nieces, an elderly aunt, sits down and tells the stories of Flora, Edith and Maggie. Influenced by Lewis Carroll's 'Alice' stories. 18cms x 12.5cms. All edges gilt. Pp.96, frontispiece and vignette to title page plus 10 further engraved illustrations by Arthur Hughes. Bright blue cloth with gilt illustrated title to font, minor lean to spine, title to spine dulled. Lovely copy of a scarce first edition of this title. VG.** Christina and her brother, the Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti, were friends with Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson].** Although he never became an official member of the Pre-Raphaelite group of painters, Arthur Hughes was strongly associated with the group..

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