Sonnets from the Portuguese.
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1925. Hardcover. Introduction by Aurelia Henry Reinhardt. Biographical Note by Edward F. O'Day. Portrait in Drypoint by John T.E. Stoll. 4to. Quarter faux vellum with gilt spine lettering and floral paper over boards. xii, 55pp. Tipped-in frontispiece. Very good. Quite minor binding edgewear, else tight and internally near fine; usual faint ghostly offsetting from frontispiece to title page; much toning to rear endpaper from long-ago newsprint contact; lacks slipcase. Item #52252
Handsome copy of the first of two very different editions (the other 1927) Nash published of the famed forty-four love sonnets first published in 1850. Colophon on title page verso notes limitation of 250 copies. Done up one sonnet per page, with large margins and each page ruled in green with large capitals in teal blue, it's truly as O'Day notes "an altogether charming edition... conducive to a leisurely reading of the stately lines." Reinhardt's 9-page opening is insightful, O'Day's 8-page closing informative and Stoll's head-and-shoulders portrait evocative. O'DAY 40.
Price: $100.00