The Book of the Courtier by Count Baldesar Castiglione (1528)

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Good+. 1903. Hardcover. Hardcover, no dustjacket, black leather spine and gray boards, the outer hinges are worn, the front cover would be detached but the former owner neatly reinforced the covers with binding tape to secure them, the corners of the boards show some wear also, the book is very clean and the contents are fine, translated from the Italian by Leonard Eckstein Opdycke, illustrated with twelve portraits (including a frontis portrait with tissue-guard of the author) and fifteen autographs, "The Book of the Courtier was written partly at Urbino and partly at Rome, between the years 1508 and 1516, and was first printed at the Aldine Press, Venice in the month of April, 1528. There have since been published more than 140 editions, a list of which will be found at page 417 of this volume"; 440 pages .