ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL. 1828-1882.
Early Italian Poets. London: Smith, Elder and Company, 1861.
8vo (177 x 115 mm). Publisher's cloth, ruled in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, chipping at spine ends, rubbed, front hinge started.

PRESENTATION COPY OF THIS SCARCE ROSSETTI WORK FOR ART DEALER ERNEST GAMBART, inscribed to the title page: 'To Ernest Gambert, Esq., with kind regards, D.G. Rossetti 1864.' Gambart was a well-known art publisher and dealer who played an important role in supporting and bolstering the reputations of Rossetti, as well as his circle. George Boyce referred to him as 'the Vampyre' however and Rossetti would humorously characterize him thus:
There is an old he-wolf named Gambart;
Beware of him if thou a lamb art.
Else thy tail and thy toes
And thine innocent nose
Will be ground by the grinders of Gambart.