![[Signed] Canticle of the Sun Saint Francis of Assisi [Clifford Burke] [Near Fine] [Hardcover]](https://r.kelkoo.com/resize.php?country=ca&merchantId=100567270&categoryId=5101&trackingId=96985762&width=auto&height=auto&image=https%3A%2F%2Fpictures.abebooks.com%2Finventory%2F31955271779.jpg&sign=63iaPSaxHVCeC8Z2Yki4WFEMzNxLqQEKvvM0O9s5Edo-)
A gorgeous fine press production by Clifford Burke and Virginia Mudd's Desert Rose Press printing St. Francis of Assisi's ""Canticle of the Sun,"" each page of verse faced with a hand-painted illustration. The whole production appears hand painted. A small book, duodecimo, paper boards all the colors of a rainbow, blue fibrous endpapers, about twenty pages. No colophon, no sense of the edition size, no attribution to an illustrator. The translation is likely by Stephen Mitchell.The only copy available, and no copies found in libraries via OCLC/WorldCat. The ""Canticle of the Sun"" was apparently composed by St. Francis in 1224 and is said to be the first religious text in vernacular Italian, giving praise to both animate creatures and inanimate elements and thus aptly representing St. Francis's core philosophy and continuing influence on environmentalism and eco-theology. A rare book, very near fine with a touch of rubbing to corners. Presumably not issued with a dust jacket.
