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Lot 153

ROSSETTI (DANTE GABRIEL)

22 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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ROSSETTI (DANTE GABRIEL)

Autograph cheque signed, for £6 15s 3d drawn on the Union Bank of London, Chancery Lane Branch, in favour of Mr Jeffreys, one page, printed with manuscript insertions, unobtrusive pen-stroke cancellation over signature, embossed stamp, spindle-hole, trace of mounting, oblong 8vo, London, 13 September 1881

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Written late in Rossetti's life: after a final jaunt to St John's Vale near Keswick in Cumberland he returned to London that autumn to oversee publication of the revised edition of his poems, suffering a mild stroke that December and dying the following Easter.

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