Fifteen Sonnets of Petrarch vizetelly Lavishly illustrated in color

Lavishly illustrated in color

highly gilt ornaments to spine

as well as a portrait of the author

The paintings are accompanied by descriptions of the Valley by Francis Younghusband

The "conversation piece" is an intimate group portrait usually of small dimensions which became fashionable in the Low Countries before flourishing in 18th century England

Fifteen Sonnets of Petrarch vizetelly Lavishly illustrated in colorBoston & New York: Houghton Mifflin & Company, 1903. Quarter vellum over blueish green paper covered boards, gilt titles to the spine, untrimmed page edges. Narrow 12mo. pp xiv, 32, [4 blanks]. Edition limited to 430 numbered copies and printed under the supervision of Bruce Rogers at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, this being copy number 319, "printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, in the month of September, MNCCCCIII". Woodcut titlepage printed