{"product_id":"poems-thomas-gordon-hake-5vvyyeyr","title":"The Poems of Thomas Gordon Hake","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe much less common binding variant – perhaps a trial binding. It is unclear who designed the binding, but it bears a resemblance to other designs by Rossetti (e.g. the binding for Thomas Hake’s ‘Parables and Tales’). The two men first met in 1869 and communicated by post for the next nine years, exchanging views and advice on the art of poetry. Hake became a great aid, companion and physician to Rossetti after his health rapidly deteriorated, even taking him into his own home in Roehampton in 1872.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAssociation copy, with the bookplate of Edmund Clarence Stedman, who edited \u003cem\u003eA Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895\u003c\/em\u003e featuring Hake’s work. With newspaper clipping, presumably added by Stedman, on rear pastedown titled ‘Personal Recollections: Dr. Gordon Hake and “The New Day”’, written posthumously by Theodore Watts and discussing Hake and Rossetti’s friendship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLoose rear free endpaper, otherwise a fine copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Maggs Bros.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48707275948189,"sku":"237134","price":95.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0669\/0045\/9677\/files\/IMG_0266.jpg?v=1784952143","url":"https:\/\/store.maggs.com\/products\/poems-thomas-gordon-hake-5vvyyeyr","provider":"Maggs Bros.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}