Castilio, Count Baldessar. 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. Edward Arnold, Strand, London, 1900.

Price: US$330.00 + shipping

Description: small 4to. full vellum. (x), 391, (vii) pages. 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.

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Count Baldessar Castilio Translated by Thomas Hoby. The Courtyer of Count Baldessar Castilio. Edward Arnold, London, 1900.

Price: US$525.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: An exceptional printing of this 16th century work on court etiquette and courtly life using the Elizabethan english translation of Thomas Hoby. Details call the publisher the Essex House Press, but also that of Edward Arnold, who was a famous publisher from the late 19th century to early 20th century. Bound in full vellum with cloth ties wrapped front to back through the vellum, cut short. Gilded title and translator on spine. Almost entirely uncut with natural edges to long and lower edges. Filled with woodcut initials, some quite large. Complete with endpapers. Pages:(4) 392 Dimensions:9 x 7¼ x 1¾.

Seller: John and Tabitha's Kerriosity Bookshop, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.

CASTIGIONE Baldesar.. The Courtyer of Count Baldessar Castilio, Divided Into Foure Bookes. Very Necessary and Profitable for Yonge Gentilmen &c.. Mile End: The Essex House Press, 1900.

Price: US$635.22 + shipping

Description: First edition. Quarto (23.5 x 18cm). No.200 of 200 copies published at £3 3s. pp. [iv],391,[1]. Caslon Type on Batchelor hand-made paper. Edited by Janet E. Ashbee, from the first English edition of 1561, the initials designed by C.R. Ashbee. Two small marks to lower blank margin of one leaf (a light splash of wine?) and small area of paper adhesion to colophon, otherwise quite excellent in contemporary full vellum, gilt, teg. Woodcut bookplate of the artist Claudius Edmund Delbos. Vg. [Tomkinson 69; Ransom 265; Franklin & Turner 232; Brown 63]

Seller: Colin Page Books, Storrington, United Kingdom