[Rarebooks] FS: Beautifully Printed and Illustrated SONNETS OF PETRARCH

[Charles Agvent]

One of hundreds of titles from the Limited Editions Club in our 
inventory,  including a number of books still in their original shipping 
boxes, as well as presentation and publisher's copies, portfolios of 
signed prints, and pieces of original art, including in some cases the 
entire set of original drawings and even unused pieces.

PETRARCH. THE SONNETS OF PETRARCH. Verona: Limited Editions Club, 1965. 
Tall octavo (8-1/4" x 12-1/4") bound in half blue levant morocco leather 
with the title stamped in gold leaf and the boards covered with a beige 
mould-made Italian paper with the front cover impressed with a head of 
Petrarch drawn by the illustrator. Planned at the Officina Bodoni and 
printed at the Stamperia Valdonega by Giovanni Mardersteig. Illustrated 
with a series of graphite-transfer drawings by Aldo Salvadori. Copy 
#1141 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist and the printer on the colophon page. 
Monthly Letter laid in. Front endpaper with veritcal crease. Still Fine 
in a Near Fine dustwrapper with a slightly soiled spine and a Fine 
slipcase. (#013454) $200.00

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