[Sale Hill Press | Limited to 14 Copies] Hand and Soul

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. Hand and Soul. London: Printed by G.A. Hammond at the Sale Hill Press, 1908. One of 14 copies printed. Printed in black and red on watermarked "Wharfedale Parchment" paper, along with two larger initials in gold leaf. Large woodcut illustration at the start of the text of Chiaro's vision of a woman appearing before him (likely by Hammond). Vellum spine and brown paper-covered boards. Title in black to spine. Measure approx. 5.5" x 7.5". Ink inscription to ffep. Some browning to spine, light rubbing to boards and corners worn.

The Sale Hill Press was a "small hand press printing works, founded 1904 by George A. Hammond (d. 1918) at Sale Hill near Sheffield. The publishing house was later moved to London. Hammond ran the hand press privately 1904-1909, then joined WH Smith & Son and formed the Red Lion Press with E.G. Perman in 1914. Hammond printed few works: two small mss. and some books, including William Blake's "Songs of Innocence" (1907) and Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "Hand and Soul" (1908), both privately printed in fewer than 20 copies" ([translated from the German], Brill).

No copies held in OCLC.