The Early Italian Poets…(1100, 1200, 1300); Translated in the original metres by D. G. Rossetti

London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1861. First Edition. With page 352 misnumbered 252 and the customary cancels. Original cloth, binding flaws to the inner paper hinge (not cracked), else near fine, complete with errata and advertisement leaf. Rossetti's first conventionally published book, issued in an edition of 600 copies. This comprehensive anthology presents extracts from sixty-four medieval Italian poets—fifty-nine named and five anonymous—all translated into English while preserving their original metrical schemes, a technical achievement that demonstrated Rossetti's dual mastery of linguistic scholarship and poetic craft.