Sonnets from the Portuguese.

8vo.

Publisher's binding: grey paper boards, lettered label on front cover, flat spine with label.

Printed under the supervision of Ch. Ricketts in red & black Vale type, decorated by him with some large red orn. initials. Pp. 2-3 are ruled with red fillets, this was the first (of four) books in which Ricketts used printed ruling as a decorative device. Edition limited to 308 unnumbered copies (incl. 8 on vellum), one of the 300 on Arnold's hand-made paper.
Ref. Watry B14. - Ransom, Vale Press, 14. - Tomkinson, Vale Press, 14. - A collection of books designed by Charles Ricketts. Zurich, L'Art ancien, bulletin 25, 1972, pp. 2-43, n. 34.