Of the Months

Pamphlet. 7 15/16 x 5 7/8 inches. Unpaginated. [16] pp. Title page vignette; text clean, unmarked. Tan wrappers printed in black with red typographic rule, stitched; binding square and tight, covers with toning at the extremities, shelf wear. Former owner's inventory number lightly penciled in the upper left corner of the colophon page. ST1021-001. Very Good.

LIMITED EDITION of 250 copies printed at the Plantin Press for friends of Saul and Lillian Marks with greetings & good wishes for the New Year, December 1967. Folgore da San Geminiano is the pseudonym for an Italian poet, of whom there is little recorded. Most of his poetry related to hunting scenes, and jousts of the Tuscan nobility; 32 sonnets are attributed to him, the most famous are corone dedicated to the days of the week and the months.

REFERENCE: Harmsen and Tabor, The Plantin Press of Saul & Lillian Marks: A Bibliography, No. 273. Worldcat lists 15 copies for 3 editions, but Worldcat jumbles together a calendar edition the Plantin Press did in 1946/7.