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Poemes / de Pierre de Ronsard.

Accession number
PML 152797
Creator
Ronsard, Pierre de, 1524-1585.
Published
À Manteno, Illinois : Chez L'Imprimerie Bronte, MCMLXXXV [1985]
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes
Poems in French and English.
"These poems have been printed by hand from Baskerville Olde Style and Italic types on Stonehenge paper by Rives and Canson rose in an edition of 20 sets. Illustrated and hand coloured by Suzanne Smith Granzow-Pruchnicki. Copyright Summer of 1985"--colophon.
Signed by Suzanne Smith Granzow-Pruchnicki in brown ink below colophon.
The original French poems are printed on cream color, the English translations on rose color, and the colophon on pink paper.
Library's set is incomplete: there are two copies of the translation of "Je vous envoie un bouquet", but the translation of "Quand vous serez bien vielle" is lacking.
Description
[13] leaves : col. ill. ; 26 x 19 cm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Issued in sheets, housed in publisher's purple paper portfolio, tied with purple silk ribbons. In modern blue paper folder.
Classification
Department