COURTYER OF COUNT BALDESSAR CASTILIO, DIVIDED INTO FOURE BOOKES. VERY NECESSARY FOR YONGE GENTILMEN & GENTILWOMEN ABIDING IN COURT, PALAICE, OR PLACE, DONE INTO ENGLYSHE BY THOMAS HOBY.
- Strand, London: Edward Arnold, 1900.
- small 4to.
- full vellum.
- (x), 391, (vii) pages
- ISBN: none
Price: $275.00 other currencies
Order Nr. 44383
Printed in an edition of 200 numbered copies. (Ransom, Tompkinson no.12). A handsome book in very good condition, with one of the four silk ties loosely inserted, , vellum slightly soiled. Done into Englyshe by Thomas Hoby. Edited from the Cambridge University Library copy of the "Editio Princeps" of 1561, by Janet E. Ashbee, and carried out under the supervision of C.R. Ashbee, from whose hand is also the alphabet of bloomers. The predominant flower in the initials appears to be the same type of flower as the floral emblem of the Essex House Press, which appears on the colophon page.