Guevara (Antonio de) The Dial of Princes... with an amplification also of a fourth booke . . . entituled the favoured courtier never heretofore imprinted in our vulgar tongue, second edition in English, black letter, title within elaborate woodcut border, woodcut initials, with blank 2E4, title neatly laid down with margins repaired, [pi]2, *6, A6 and second A1 with neatly repaired tears to margins, 12ff. following title with small wormhole to text, minor worming to lower margin of a few ff. at start, U2 with small hole to text with loss to a couple of letters, **1 misbound after **5, bookplates to pastedown, contemporary panelled blind-stamped calf, with initials 'R.T.B.' to covers, with claps, rebacked, lower cover becoming loose, [STC 12428], folio, by Richarde Tottill, and Thomas Marshe, 1568. ⁂ A rare treatise on the conduct of princes. Provenance: Curzon family; Walter T. Shirley (bookplates).
Guevara (Antonio de) The Dial of Princes... with an amplification also of a fourth booke . . . entituled the favoured courtier never heretofore imprinted in our vulgar tongue, second edition in English, black letter, title within elaborate woodcut border, woodcut initials, with blank 2E4, title neatly laid down with margins repaired, [pi]2, *6, A6 and second A1 with neatly repaired tears to margins, 12ff. following title with small wormhole to text, minor worming to lower margin of a few ff. at start, U2 with small hole to text with loss to a couple of letters, **1 misbound after **5, bookplates to pastedown, contemporary panelled blind-stamped calf, with initials 'R.T.B.' to covers, with claps, rebacked, lower cover becoming loose, [STC 12428], folio, by Richarde Tottill, and Thomas Marshe, 1568. ⁂ A rare treatise on the conduct of princes. Provenance: Curzon family; Walter T. Shirley (bookplates).
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