The Germ: The Literary Magazine of the Pre-Raphaelites

Oxford, England: Ashmolean Museum / Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, 1979. Softcover. VG- (Labels & few marks from previous library, otherwise clean.). White & red wraps, 193 pp., no illus. The 1979 facsimile reprint of the 1901 compilation volume containing all four issues of The Germ. "D. G. Rossetti conceived the idea of a literary journal shortly after the first exhibition by members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1849. Four issues appeared in 1850 and were reprinted in facsimile in 1901 with an explanatory introduction by A. M. Rossetti, Dante Gabriel's younger brother. ... 'The Germ' contains short stories, essays and literary reviews, but most particularly poetry. ..." (back cover) With an additional preface here by Andrea Rose. Full contents as follows: No.1: My beautiful lady / Thomas Woolner -- Of my lady in death / Thomas Woolner -- The love of beauty / F. Madox Brown -- The subject in art (I) / John Tupper -- The seasons / Coventry Patmore -- Dream land (Ellen Alleyn) / Christina Rossetti -- Songs of one household No. 1 (my sister's sleep) / Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- Hand and soul / Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- Reviews: the "Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich" / William Michael Rossetti? [Her] first season / William Michael Rossetti -- A sketch from nature / John Tupper -- An end (Ellen Alleyn) / Christina Rossetti. -- No.2: The Child Jesus / James Collinson -- A pause of thought (Ellen Alleyn) / Christina Rossetti -- The purpose and tendency of early Italian art (John Seward) / Frederick George Stephens -- Song (Ellen Alleyn) / Christina Rossetti -- Morning sleep / William Bell Scott -- Sonnet / Major Calder Campbell -- Stars and moon / Coventry Patmore -- On the Mechanism of a historical picture, part 1 / Ford Madox Brown -- A testimony (Ellen Alleyn) / Christina Rossetti -- O when and where / Thomas Woolner -- Fancies at Leisure / William Michael Rossetti -- The sight beyond / Walter Deverell -- The blessed damozel / Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- Reviews: "The strayed reveller and other poems" / William Michael Rossetti. -- No.3: Cordelia / William Michael Rossetti -- Macbeth / Coventry Patmore -- Repining (Ellen Alleyn) / Christina Rossetti? Sweet death (Ellen Alleyn) / Christina Rossetti -- Subject in art (II) / John Tupper -- Carillon / Dante Gabriel Rossetti? Emblems / Thomas Woolner? Sonnet: Early aspirations / William Bell Scott? From the cliffs / Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- Fancies at leisure / William Michael Rossetti -- Papers of "The M.S. Society," Nos. I, II, III / John Lucas Tupper? Reviews: Some account of the life and adventures of Sir Reginald Mohun / William Michael Rossetti. -- No.4: Viola and Olivia / John Lucas Tupper? Introduction to?A Dialogue on Art? / Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- A Dialogue on art / John Orchard -- On a Whit-Sunday morn in the month of May / John Orchard -- Modern giants (Laura Savage) Frederick George Stephens -- To the castle ramparts / William Michael Rossetti -- Pax vobis / Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- A modern idyl / Walter Deverell -- "Jesus Wept" / William Michael Rossetti -- Sonnets for pictures / Dante G. Rossetti -- Papers of "The M.S. Soceity," No. IV, V / John Lucas Tupper -- Reviews: Christmas Eve and Easter Day / William Michael Rossetti -- The evil under the sun / William Michael Rossetti.