TRAUTZ-BAUZONNET, bindery. [PETRARCA, FRANCESCO]. Sonnets from Petrarch. Illuminated by Ross Turner. [New Rochelle]: George D. Sproul, 1902. PRINTED ON VELLUM and illuminated throughout in gold and colors, with elaborate borders and numerous large initials, text on rectos only. 4to, red morocco elaborately gilt, with blue, pink, green, white, and red morocco onlays in various geometrical and floral designs, spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered longitudinally down the spine, g.e.; elaborate gilt doublures in various colored morocco onlays, surrounding a stylized central sun medallion of marbled red morocco surrounded by gray and green morocco onlays and gilt designs turn-ins stamp-signed by TRAUTZ-BAUZONNET, original padded satin-lined white watered silk box, defective. LIMITED "SAINT DUNSTAN" EDITION, number 23 of 30 copies specially illuminated throughout by Ross Turner for Herman A. Metz.

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TRAUTZ-BAUZONNET, bindery. [PETRARCA, FRANCESCO]. Sonnets from Petrarch. Illuminated by Ross Turner. [New Rochelle]: George D. Sproul, 1902. PRINTED ON VELLUM and illuminated throughout in gold and colors, with elaborate borders and numerous large initials, text on rectos only. 4to, red morocco elaborately gilt, with blue, pink, green, white, and red morocco onlays in various geometrical and floral designs, spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered longitudinally down the spine, g.e.; elaborate gilt doublures in various colored morocco onlays, surrounding a stylized central sun medallion of marbled red morocco surrounded by gray and green morocco onlays and gilt designs turn-ins stamp-signed by TRAUTZ-BAUZONNET, original padded satin-lined white watered silk box, defective. LIMITED "SAINT DUNSTAN" EDITION, number 23 of 30 copies specially illuminated throughout by Ross Turner for Herman A. Metz.

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