[Francesco Petrarca; Petrarch].

[Early Cloth Binding]. Le Rime.

London: C. Corrall for G. Pickering, 1822. One of the series usually known as Pickering’s “Diamond Classics,” they are some of the earliest books to have publisher’s bindings of cloth.

48mo. [7], 237pp., [9, index]. Keynes, pg. 72. Porter 146. Tomlinson & Masters, pg. 11. Carter, Binding Variants, pgs. 9-15. Nash, Two Hundred Years of Publisher’s Cloth, Journal of Printing Historical Society (2020, passim). Very good uncut and partially unopened, slight foxing of engraved leaves, publisher’s ochre cloth which has faded but turn-ins appear to reflect an original brighter red color, worn paper label on spine, prior owner inscription dated 1830 (placing the cloth not later than such date). Item #312

Price: $125.00