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Castiglione printed by De Vinne, 1/500
Castiglione printed by De Vinne, 1/500
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Author: Castiglione, Baltasar
Title: The Book of the Courtier
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Charles Scribner's Sons
Date Published: 1901
Description:

xiv, 439, [1] pp. Translated from the Italian and annotated by Leonard Epstein Opdycke. Portraits and facsimile autographs. (4to) original limp vellum, stamped in gilt on spine and front, edges untrimmed. Printed by Theodore Low De Vinne. No. 154 of an edition limited to 500 copies.

A translation of the sixteenth century classic. Theodore Low De Vinne (1828-1914) was an American printer and scholarly author on typography. He was one of nine men who founded the Grolier Club in 1884, and was printer to the Club for the first two decades of its existence, designing and printing most of the club‘s publications during his lifetime. Bookplates of two previous owners.

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Some staining and wear to vellum; title page detached and laid in, else very good.
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Castiglione printed by De Vinne, 1/500

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