The courtyer of Count Baldessar Castilio : diuided into foure bookes : very necessary and profitable for yonge gentilmen and gentilwomen abiding in court, palaice or place / done into Englyshe by Thomas Hoby.

Accession number: 
PML 27734
Author: 
Castiglione, Baldassarre, conte, 1478-1529.
Published: 
London : Imprinted at London by Wyllyam Seres ... , 1561.
Description: 
[22], [368] p. ; 19 cm.
Notes: 

First ed. in English.
Translation of: Il libro del cortegiano.
Printed in black letter.
Title-page within architectural border. Cf. McKerrow, R. Title-page borders in England and Scotland ... no. 111.

Binding: 
Burgundy morocco binding by Riviere.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Occasional marginal notes, including one almost invisible on kk1v.

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