Le rime di messer Francesco Petrarca (three vols in one) antiquities nineteen twenties mum administering a

nineteen twenties mum administering a tray of tea and fruit to her daughter who is tucked up in bed accompanied by her Chinese rag doll

Endpapers and first two dozen pages well toned

First British Edition following publication in USA the year before

London: Tate Gallery

Offsetting to endpapers

Le rime di messer Francesco Petrarca (three vols in one) antiquities nineteen twenties mum administering aParigi: Lefevre, 1820. Three vols bound as one. 16mo. pp xvi, 192; 192; 240; engraved frontispieces of Petrarch and Laura. All three titlepages present. Text in Italian. Bound in dark green contemporary cloth with a delightful gilt single line scroll pattern to the front panel with a more intricate version of same pattern to the spine and a gilt lettered title panel. All edges gilt. Inscribed on the front pastedown "Jas. Scott, Lincoln's Inn, 1830". A