Accession number
PML 127096
Creator
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
Published
Venice : Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari e fratelli, 1550.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1991.
Notes
Includes two plates in the sonnets and six in the triumphs.
Engraved t.p., woodcut initials.
Library's copy has very extensive 16th-century marginalia.
Engraved t.p., woodcut initials.
Library's copy has very extensive 16th-century marginalia.
Description
[8], 216 leaves, [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; (4to)
Provenance
16th cen.: Battista Guarini, Francesco Castagnino; 17th cen.: Gianfrancesco Maia Materdona; 18th cen.: John Monk Newbolt; 19th cen.: G.C. Tennyson, his son Alfred Tennyson, Cheltenham Circulating Library, Lord Spencer of Althorp (with authentication letter concerning Tennyson).
Binding
Calf, with original gold-tooled spine laid down.
Classification
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