"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."

— Marcel Proust

"Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book"

— Stephan Mallarme

"Outside of a dog, man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."

— Groucho Marx

"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."

— C. S. Lewis

Verses by Christina G. Rossetti.

ROSSETTI, Christina (1830-1894).

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1893. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.236 [4]. Printed on fine handmade paper, with red ruling to margins. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Top edge gilt; others untrimmed. Black ink gift inscription to front fly-leaf, dated 1893. Unopened in places, with some offsetting to endpapers. Quite a pungent scent. Light wear to cloth. Very good. A collection reprinted from 'Called to be Saints' (1881), 'Time Flies' (1885), and 'The Face of the Deep' (1892). Item #58766

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