Handbound Love Poems by Luis de Camoens

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Author: Camoens, Luis de
Title: Love Poems
Place Published: [n.p.]
Publisher:Privately Reprinted
Date Published: 1886
Description:

[iv], [117], [3, blank] pp. Translated from the Portuguese by Lord Viscount Strangford. Illustrated with ornamentation throughout. (Small quarto) 21.7x16.7 cm (8½x6½"), original stab binding in softcover on Whatman paper. Pictorial gilt cover. no. 57 of 100 copies, 50 of which were printed on Japan paper and 50 on Whatman.

Beautifully designed, printed, and bound. Signed on the limitation by Blanche Butterworth Haggin. The inscription below seems to imply that she collected these poems and had them printed, although the book seems to have been owned by John T. Doyle, who has signed and dated the flyleaf.
Condition Report: Some toning, otherwise fine.