![Item #312 [Early Cloth Binding]. Le Rime. Francesco Petrarca, Petrarch](https://nelsonrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/312.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1713287290)
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.....
![Item #313 [Early Publisher's Cloth Binding]. Le Rime. Francesco Petrarca, Petrarch](https://nelsonrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/313.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1713287290)
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.....
![Item #316 [Foulis Press]. Poems. Gray Mr, Thomas](https://nelsonrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/316.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1713285846)
Glasgow: Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1768. First Scottish edition, which includes, among others, poems from Gray’s most famous work, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751). For this edition, the Foulis brothers had Alexander Wilson cut a special font of double pica roman type. Updike, Printing Types, II: 143.....
![Item #314 [Printed on Vellum, in a Vellum Chemise, all in a Vellum Case]. Oraison Funèbre de...](https://nelsonrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/314.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1713287290)
Bordeaux: Librairie de Hippolyte Duthu, 1883. #3 of an unstated number of copies beautifully printed in brown and red on vellum. Commemorating the passing of the Archbishop of Perga / Coadjutor Bishop of Bordeaux, by Mermillod, the Cardinal Bishop of Lausanne and Geneva. Rare. 8vo. Unbound sheets.....
