Sansovino, Francesco

4to (6 5/8 x 4 7/8 in.; 171 x 127 mm). Black letter (with roman and italic types), decorative woodcut initials and headpieces, full-page woodcut of the translator's arms on Ee2v; a few catchwords and signature marks cropped or shaved (largely confined to gatherings B, F, L), final line on B1r and one running-head shaved, Ee2 creased and so printed, about three top fore-edge corners restored, washed. Early twentieth-century red morocoo gilt, marbled enpapers, gilt edges.

J. O. Edwards (booklabel)

STC 21744a; ESTC S1704; Pfrorzheimer 853

4to (6 5/8 x 4 7/8 in.; 171 x 127 mm). Black letter (with roman and italic types), decorative woodcut initials and headpieces, full-page woodcut of the translator's arms on Ee2v; a few catchwords and signature marks cropped or shaved (largely confined to gatherings B, F, L), final line on B1r and one running-head shaved, Ee2 creased and so printed, about three top fore-edge corners restored, washed. Early twentieth-century red morocoo gilt, marbled enpapers, gilt edges.
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First edition; a very good copy of a scarce book. A note at the end of the index promotes the forthcoming publication of "a second booke of Sansovinos politick Conceites," but it was evidently never printed or, if printed, does not survive. A variant issue (no precedence) of the present work includes the date Octobris. 28. in the imprint. The issue without the specific date is much the rarer of the two, although evidently no copy of either issue has appeared at auction since the Foyle copy in 2000.