Accession number
PML 6833
Published
London : Aylott & Jones, 1850.
Notes
Original monthly parts issued in four numbers from Jan. to May 1850; no. 1-2 (Jan-Feb 1850) under title: The Germ: thoughts towards nature, poetry, literature, and art; no. 3-4 (Mar.-April 1850) under title: Art and poetry: being thoughts towards nature. All published. Paging continuous.
No. 3-4 contain additional publisher information: London: Dickinson & Co. and Aylott & Jones.
Each no. contains an etching: no. 1 by W. Holman Hunt, no. 2 by James Collinson, no. 3 by F. Madox Brown, no. 4 by W.H. Deverell.
Edited by William M. Rossetti.
A literary organ of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
Over the title of no. 2 a title for Art and poetry has been pasted. No. 4 which originally was dated May has the word April pasted in its place.
No. 1, Jan., 1850 contains first printing of Coventry Patmore's Seasons (p. 19); Christina Rossetti's Dreamland (p. 20) and End (beginning: "Love, strong as death, is dead") (p. 48); Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Hand and soul (p. 23-33) and Songs of one household : no. 1, My sister's sleep (p. 21-22); William Rossetti's Reviews : The bothie of Toper-ma-fuosich / by Arthur Hugh Clough ... 1848 (p. 34-46) and To the castle ramparts (p. 73-76) .
No. 2, Feb., 1850 contains first printing of Christina Rossetti's A pause of thought (p. 57), Song (beginning: "Oh! roses for the flush of youth") (p. 64), A testimony (p. 73-75), and The blessed damozel (the second form of the poem) (p. 80-83); William Rossetti's Her first season : (Sonnet) (p. 46), Reviews : The strayed reveller ... by A ... 1849 (p. 84-86)
No. 2-3, Feb.-March, 1850 contains first printing of William Rossetti's Fancies at leisure (p. 76-78 and p. 129-131).
no. 3 (Mar. 1850) contains first printing of Patmore's Macbeth (p. 99-100), Christina Rossetti's Repining (p. 111-117) and Sweet death (p. 117), Dante Gabriel Rossetti's The carillon : (Antwerp and Bruges) (p. 126) and From the cliffs : Noon (p. 129); William Rossetti's Cordelia (p. 97-98) and Reviews : Some account of ... Sir Reginald Mohun ... by George John Cayley ... 1849 (p. 137-144).
no. 4, April, 1850 contains first printing of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's The evil under the sun (p. 192); William Rossetti's "Jesus wept" (p. 179) and Reviews : Christmas Eve and Easter Day, by Robert Browning ... 1850 (p. 187-192).
The Table of contents for no. 2, Feb., 1850 gives the author of A pause of thought as Ellen Alleyn, Christina Rossetti's pseudonym.
No. 3-4 contain additional publisher information: London: Dickinson & Co. and Aylott & Jones.
Each no. contains an etching: no. 1 by W. Holman Hunt, no. 2 by James Collinson, no. 3 by F. Madox Brown, no. 4 by W.H. Deverell.
Edited by William M. Rossetti.
A literary organ of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
Over the title of no. 2 a title for Art and poetry has been pasted. No. 4 which originally was dated May has the word April pasted in its place.
No. 1, Jan., 1850 contains first printing of Coventry Patmore's Seasons (p. 19); Christina Rossetti's Dreamland (p. 20) and End (beginning: "Love, strong as death, is dead") (p. 48); Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Hand and soul (p. 23-33) and Songs of one household : no. 1, My sister's sleep (p. 21-22); William Rossetti's Reviews : The bothie of Toper-ma-fuosich / by Arthur Hugh Clough ... 1848 (p. 34-46) and To the castle ramparts (p. 73-76) .
No. 2, Feb., 1850 contains first printing of Christina Rossetti's A pause of thought (p. 57), Song (beginning: "Oh! roses for the flush of youth") (p. 64), A testimony (p. 73-75), and The blessed damozel (the second form of the poem) (p. 80-83); William Rossetti's Her first season : (Sonnet) (p. 46), Reviews : The strayed reveller ... by A ... 1849 (p. 84-86)
No. 2-3, Feb.-March, 1850 contains first printing of William Rossetti's Fancies at leisure (p. 76-78 and p. 129-131).
no. 3 (Mar. 1850) contains first printing of Patmore's Macbeth (p. 99-100), Christina Rossetti's Repining (p. 111-117) and Sweet death (p. 117), Dante Gabriel Rossetti's The carillon : (Antwerp and Bruges) (p. 126) and From the cliffs : Noon (p. 129); William Rossetti's Cordelia (p. 97-98) and Reviews : Some account of ... Sir Reginald Mohun ... by George John Cayley ... 1849 (p. 137-144).
no. 4, April, 1850 contains first printing of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's The evil under the sun (p. 192); William Rossetti's "Jesus wept" (p. 179) and Reviews : Christmas Eve and Easter Day, by Robert Browning ... 1850 (p. 187-192).
The Table of contents for no. 2, Feb., 1850 gives the author of A pause of thought as Ellen Alleyn, Christina Rossetti's pseudonym.
Description
4 nos. in 1 v. : ill., plates (one double).
Provenance
Coventry Patmore's copy; at the end of various unsigned poems and articles he has written the author's names including one contribution of his own which he has signed.
Binding
Blue morocco, gilt, by Zaehnsdorf, 1900.
Classification
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