There were various editions of Dante, including a very large folio edition of the _Commedia_, dated Florence, 1481, and the works of a number of Dante’s contemporaries. Besides two or three editions of Shakspeare (the best being Dyce’s, in 9 vols.), there were some of the Elizabethan dramatists. Coming to later poetry, I found a complete set of Gilfillan’s _Poets_, in 45 vols. There was the curious little manuscript quarto (much like a shilling school-exercise book) labelled _Blake_, and this was, perhaps, by far the most valuable volume in the library. The contents and history of this book have already been given. There were two editions of Gilchrist’s _Blake_; complete (or almost complete) sets of the works of William Morris and A. C. Swinburne, inscribed in the authors’ autographs--the copy of _Atalanta in Calydon_ being marked by the poet, “First copy; printed off before the dedication was in type.” It may be remembered that Robert Brough translated Béranger’s songs, and dedicated his volume in affectionate terms to Rossetti. The presentation copy of this book bore the following inscription:--“To D. G. Rossetti, meaning in my _heart_ what I have tried to say in print. Et. B. Brough. 1856.” There were also several presentation copies from Robert Browning, Coventry Patmore, W. B. Scott, Sir Henry Taylor, Aubrey de Vere, Tom Taylor, Westland Marston, F. Locker, A. O’Shaughnessy, Sir Theodore Martin; besides volumes bearing the names of nearly every well-known younger writer of prose or verse. Five volumes of _Modern Painters_, together with _The Seven Lamps of Architecture_ and the tract on _Pre-Raphaelitism_, bore the author’s name and Rossetti’s in Mr. Ruskin’s autograph. There was a fine copy in ten volumes of Violet-le-Duc’s _Dictionnaire de l’Architecture_, and also of the _Biographie Générale_ in forty-six volumes, besides several dictionaries, concordances, and the like. There was also a copy of Fitzgerald’s _Calderon_. Rossetti seemed to be a reader of Swedenborg, as White’s book on the great mystic testified; also to have been at one time interested in the investigation of the phenomena of Spiritualism. Of one writer of fiction he must have been an ardent reader, for there were at least 100 volumes by Alexandre Dumas. German writers were conspicuously absent, Goethe’s _Faust_ and Carlyle’s translation of _Wilhelm, Meister_, being about the only notable German works in the library. Rossetti did not appear to be a collector of first editions, nor did it seem that he attached much importance to the mere outsides of his books, but of the insides he was master indeed. The impression left upon the mind after a rapid survey of the poet-painter’s library was that he was a careful, but slow and thorough reader (as was seen by the marginal annotations which nearly every volume contained), and that, though very far from affected by bibliomania, he was not without pride in the possession of rare and valuable books.