[Francesco Petrarca; Petrarch].

[Early Publisher's 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. Very good uncut and partially unopened, publisher’s dark cloth, worn paper label on spine, a variant binding which is perhaps later. Item #313

Price: $125.00