Petrarch - Love's Crucifix - First Edition

PETRARCH, [TOBIN, Agnes, translator, MEYNELL, Alice, preface, ROBERTSON, Graham, illustrator].

Love's Crucifix. Nine Sonnets and a Canzone.

London: William Heinemann, 1902.

FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 21cm), unpaginated [32]. Publisher's paper covered stiff wraps with yapp edges, decorated in green, blue and gilt to upper, green linen ties. Eleven plates by Robertson.

Offset toning to pages facing plates, hinge and joint repaired with archive tape, most of the linen ties gone, covers rubbed and marked, especially to spine ends. Very good.