The "conversation piece" is an intimate group portrait usually of small dimensions which became fashionable in the Low Countries before flourishing in 18th century England
biographical and chronological analysis to accompany the illustrated catalogue of every work completed buring the artist's late period
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Reissue of the first edition
Original green cloth with gilt illustration of the title character and gilt lettering to upper board
Fifteen Sonnets of Petrarch vizetelly The "conversation piece" is anBoston & New York: Houghton Mifflin & Company, 1903. Quarter vellum over blueish green paper covered boards, gilt titles to the spine, untrimmed page edges. Narrow 12mo. pp xiv, 32, [4 blanks]. Edition limited to 430 numbered copies and printed under the supervision of Bruce Rogers at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, this being copy number 319, "printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, in the month of September, MNCCCCIII". Woodcut titlepage printed