<I>The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch</I>
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1901
name: label: Written by
content: Petrarch, Italian, 1304 - 1374
label: Published by
content: Hurst & Company, American, founded 1883
label: Subject of
content: Rock Rest Tourist Home, American, 1948 - 1976
label: Owned by
content: Clayton Sinclair, American
label: Owned by
content: Hazel Sinclair, American
notes: label: Description
content: A hardcover book titled, The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch, by Petrarch and published by Hurst & Company. It is a cloth bound hardcover book with a sewn binding and gilded page edges. The green front cover of the embossed, cloth-bound volume features a large, gold leaf rectangular box at the top third of the cover. The shortened title of the book, [PETRARCH], is printed in green relief inside the box. The text is accented with illustrations of leaves and curled stems. Around the box is a band of repeating squares with circles at the center, divided by two small rectangles. It is surrounded by a second band filled with black and studded with gold polka dots. The box is framed with a gold band decorated with small, four petal flowers connected by curvilinear lines. Floral sprays with five petals flowers overlay the bands on the box. In the bottom right quadrant is a gold leaf illustration of a bird in flight inside a circular frame with floral flourishes at the top, bottom, right, and left sides. Surrounding the title box and bird illustration is an ornate black embossed frame embellished with rosettes and foliage. The spine of the book is heavily decorated with gold leaf floral designs and geometric patterns. The shortened title, [PETRARCH], and the publisher’s information [HURST AND CO.], are printed in green relief inside solid gold bands at the top and bottom. The back cover of the book is plain. The interior of the book has black type on white pages. There is a thin, red decorative border around all of the pages. The pastedowns and free endpapers are deep mauve. The book features dozens of a chronological history of Petrarch’s life, a biography of Petrarch, poems, sonnets, small black-and-white illustrations, and two printed, black-and-white illustrations of etchings. The book has 349 pages.
place: label: Place collected
content: Kittery, York County, Maine, United States, North and Central America
label: Place printed
content: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Black Enterprise
label: Topic
content: Black interiors
label: Topic
content: Literature
label: Topic
content: Poetry
label: Topic
content: Segregation
label: Topic
content: Travel
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: The Rock Rest Tourist Home Collection
label: Classification
content: Books and Published Materials
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2011.12.52.5
objectType: label: Type
content: hardcover books
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: No Known Copyright Restrictions
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper (fiber product) with book cloth (textile material) , cardboard , leaf (metal) and thread
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 7 5/8 × 5 3/8 × 1 1/8 in. (19.3 × 13.6 × 2.8 cm)