Astrophel and Stella.
Nonesuch Press, 1931. Fine copy in decorated paper-covered boards in chemise and slipcase. A sequence of 108 sonnets and 11 songs written about 1582, in versions of the exacting Italian sonnet form. Printed and made in England by the Kynoch Press in Bembo and Union Pearl Italics on Van Gelder paper, is limited to 725 copies for sale in England and 485 for sale in the United States by Random House Inc. A nice, clean copy. Nonesuch Century, Dreyfus number 73. Alfonso Ossorio's copy signed 'Ossorio 1936' with small bookplate "Alfonso Ossorio Lowell House Cambridge. Mass" Item #189
Price: $150.00
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