Fifteen Sonnets of Petrarch vizetelly The book was purchased directly

The book was purchased directly from Mary Swan at her Chelsea mansion flat

723 + [iv]

highly gilt ornaments to spine

biographical and chronological analysis to accompany the illustrated catalogue of every work completed buring the artist's late period

The "conversation piece" is an intimate group portrait usually of small dimensions which became fashionable in the Low Countries before flourishing in 18th century England

Fifteen Sonnets of Petrarch vizetelly The book was purchased directlyBoston & 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