The paintings are accompanied by descriptions of the Valley by Francis Younghusband
as well as a portrait of the author
near perfect save for a two tiny nicks at both ends of the spine and some very light rubbing to the tips of the corners of the jacket
Reissue of the first edition
Original green cloth with gilt illustration of the title character and gilt lettering to upper board
Fifteen Sonnets of Petrarch vizetelly The paintings are accompanied byBoston & New York: Houghton Mifflin & Company, 1903. Quarter vellum over blueish green paper covered boards, gilt titles to the spine, untrimmed page edges. Narrow 12mo. pp xiv, 32, [4 blanks]. Edition limited to 430 numbered copies and printed under the supervision of Bruce Rogers at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, this being copy number 319, "printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, in the month of September, MNCCCCIII". Woodcut titlepage printed