Shelfmark
Ls.3.03
Author
Francis, 1182 - 1226 of Assisi, Saint
Uniform title
[Cantico di frate sole. English & Italian]
Title
Incipiunt laudes creaturarum / quas fecit beatus Franciscus ad laudem et honorem Dei cum esset infirmus ad sanctum Damianum.
Varying form of title
Added title page title: Laudes creaturarum
Publication, distribution, etc.
Hammersmith : Doves Press, MDCCCCX [1910]
Physical description
[10] p. ; 17 cm.
Note
Imprint from colophon.
Note
Half-title: Laudes creaturarum.
Note
"Printed at the Doves Press ... from the ancient Italian text published by Monsieur Sabatier, and from the English translation by the late Matthew Arnold."--colophon.
Note
Verse by verse parallel text in English (printed in red) and Italian (printed in black).
Note
250 copies were printed on paper and 12 on vellum (cf. Tomkinson).
Note
Bound in brown morocco at the Doves Bindery ; gilt cover and spine title ; Doves Bindery stamp; gilt-ruled turn-ins and gilt fore-edges.
Citation/references note
Tomkinson, G. S. A select bibliography of ... modern presses ... in Great Britain and Ireland (London, 1928), p. 56
Provenance
Presentation inscription: "To Peggy on her marriage from her well-wishing friend T. J. Cobden-Sanderson."
Binding
Spine rebacked; housed in modern decorated paper slip-case with morocco corners.
Added entry--name
Arnold, Matthew, 1822 - 1888 translator.
Added entry--name
Sabatier, Paul, 1858 - 1928 translator.
Added entry--name
Cobden-Sanderson, T. J., 1840 - 1922 inscriber.
Added entry--name
Doves Press publisher.
Added entry--name
Doves Bindery bookbinder.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
ita eng lat ita fre
Identifier
B48057