Some Sonnets from Laura in Death after the Italian of Francesco Petrarch. Edited with an Introduction by Robin Skelton. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1971. Publisher’s full vellum boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, in plain paper dust jacket. Housed in slipcase. A fine bright copy.

Number 40 of Seventy-Five Special Copies Signed by the Editor & with two extra Drypoint Engravings, Signed by the Artist (in pouch at rear).

Synge’s translations from Petrarch (the 14th century Italian poet) is the first edition to include the Italian text and the first separate publication of all these translations. The Italian texts prepared for press by Helga Patrikios from the Carducci and Ferrari edition published by Sansoni, Florence.

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