Max Beerbohm — Rossetti and His Circle

London, William Heinemann, 1922. First edition. Cloth. A pleasing first edition of Max Beerbohm's humorous caricaturist series concerning the life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his peers. First edition. Illustrated with a colour tipped in frontispiece and twenty-two colour tipped in plates. Collated complete. This volume comprises a series of caricatures humorously depicting the life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his fellow Pre-Raphaelites. Now considered one of the masterpieces of the caricaturist. Written and illustrated by Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm, an English essayist, parodist and caricaturist under the signature Max, who first became known in the 1890s as a dandy and a humorist. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light age toning to the extremities. Very Good . Ill.: Max Beerbohm. Very Good .