Sonnets and Madrigals

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1900. One of 300 copies. This copy specially hand-colored. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. xxix, 109pp. Designed by Bruce Rogers and printed at the Riverside Press. As reported in a 1901 issue of The Inland Printer, Rogers had arranged the book with the intention of having it illuminated. Though the plan did not come to fruition across the edition, Rogers did color his own copy - one of two identified by Warde as having been printed on "special paper" and bound in parchment. This coloring in the present copy appears contemporary, especially given that it bears the leather booklabel of Guy Littell, the bibliophilic vice-president of R.R. Donnelly. Spine minimally soiled, else fine in gilt-stamped cloth with slipcase. T.e.g. Additional bookplate of noted collector Joseph Manuel Andreini, to front pastedown