Presentation Copy
Mary Stuart A Tragedy.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1881.
Price: $3,000.00
About the item
First edition. [viii], 203, [1, blank]; 32 (publisher’s catalogue) pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Presentation Copy. Original blue-green cloth. Near fine (prelims with faintest traces of foxing).
Item #302891
Author's presentation copy, inscribed "Frederick Sandys from his friend A C Swinburne.”
Frederick Sandys (1829–1904), Pre-Raphaelite painter, prolific illustrator, and improvident man about town, was a close associate of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Swinburne, whose poems, such as “Cleopatra,” he illustrated.