Description
The Sonnets of Petrarch by Francesco Petrarch, published by The Limited Editions Club, a fine example.
Tall quarto, xix, 369pp, [3]. Half blue levant morocco over beige paper boards. Title in gilt on the spine. In the original dust jacket and publisher’s slipcase, both fine, scarce in this condition. The front cover bears an impressed portrait of Petrarch. The original Italian appears with English translations selected and edited by Thomas G. Bergin. Illustrated by Aldo Salvadori. Designed by Giovanni Mardersteig and printed at the Stamperia Valdonega. Includes The Monthly Letter of The Limited Editions Club for November 1965, Number 382.
One of 1500 numbered copies signed by Salvadori and Mardersteig on the colophon, this being number 85.
(Limited Editions Club 375)
