Sole edition, one of 300 copies (no. 166). 9 manuscript facsimile illustrations printed opposite to text. 4to., 24x17cm, 32, [2]pp. Stiff paper wrappers, title and printer's imprint on front cover printed in red, text otherwise in black. Case Editrice Ticci, Siena., 1949.
Good, both covers browned and worn at edges, top right corner of front cover bumped to the right of a small tear, very small black ink-mark near lower edge of front cover and close to spine of rear cover. Pages clean throughout.
No. XIX in the series ‘Quaderni dell’Accademia Chigina’, this slim collection of three of Guido Cavalcanti’s poems in the original Italian is an ideal companion to Pound’s edition of the troubadour poet from 15 years previous. Edited by Olga Rudge, this volume collects three Canzoni that were not included in Pound’s Guido Cavalcanti Rime (1932), likely by reason of its lengthily troubled path to publication.
