The Historie of Guicciardin (Guicciardini) Containing the Warres of Italie and Other Partes, Continued for Manie Yeares Under Sundrie Kings and Princes... With a Table at Large Expressing the Principall Matters... Reduced Into English By Geffray Fenton.

London: Richard Field (1594), 1599. Second English Edition . Quarter Calf. Good +. 943, [X]. Quarter Calf. Second English Language Edition. Folio. Quarter Calf Over Marbled Boards. Pages 10 3/4" Tall, All Three Edges Watered. Leather Is Quite Worn, Joints Cracked, Frayed At Corners With Small Losses, Paper Covering The Boards Is Partly Worn Away At Edges. Lacks Initial Blank. Contemporary Gilt And Embossed Compartmented Spine. Signs Of Removed Bookplate On Front Pastedown. Hinges Cracked But Firm. Title Page, With Complex "Anchora Spei" Ornamental Engraving, Missing Lower Right Corner, About One Square Inch Total, With No Loss Of Text Or Ornament. Text Divided Into Twenty Books, With Woodcut Ornaments And Initials For Each; Unpaginated Ten Page Table (Index) At End. Dedication To Queen Elizabeth I By Fenton. Small Waterstains Showing Irregularly At Bottom Of Some Pages, Well Below Text Block. First Page Missing Lower Corner Adjacent To Spine, With No Loss Of Text. Light 1/2" Ink Smear P. 8 With No Loss Of Text. Page 49 Mis-Numbered 53, Otherwise Correct. Page 57/58 With Two Inch Tear At Bottom, Extending 1/2" Into Text Block, With No Loss Of Text. Small Chip To Side Of Text Block On P. 135/136, Not Affecting Text. Page 161 Mis-Numbered 155, Otherwise Correct. One-Eighth-Inch Hole Through P. 209/210, Affecting One Letter. A Few Letters Near Bottom Of P. 212 Apparently Once Obliterated Or Misprinted, Carefully Restored In Ink. About One And A Half Square Inches Of Lower Left Corner Of P. 235 Missing, With No Loss Of Text Block But Loss Of Most Of Gloss Note At Bottom Of P. 235 (X3). One-Eighth-Inch Hole At Top Margin Of P. 271/272, With Loss Of One Letter Of Gloss Note. One Eighth Inch Hole P. 327/328, With Loss Of A Letter On Each Page. There Are No Pages 460 Through 500; The Tenth Book Ends On Page 459 (Rr) (As It So States In The Text), And The Eleventh Book Begins On P. 500 (P. 501 Is Rr2). One Quarter Inch Foxing Spot Pp 535-544 At Upper Left Margin At Edge Of Page, Not Affecting Text. Page 584 Mis-Numbered 588, Otherwise Correct. Page 593 Mis-Numbered 597, Otherwise Correct. Pp599-603 (Bbb3--Bbb4) Somewhat Browned. One Sixteenth Inch Spot Pages 641-643, Obscuring A Letter On Each Page. A One-Eighth-Inch Hole And Singed Margin Through Page 673/674, Causing Loss Of One Or Two Letters On Each Page 673-674. A Small Stain Spot Extending Through Pp713-721, Another Few Pp723-725, Without Obscuring Text. Small Stain P 736, Not Obscuring Text. There Is No Page 787-788; A Reading Of The Text On Pages 786 And 789 Indicates That The Text Is Complete Regardless. Page 798 Is Mis-Numbered 799, Otherwise Correct. Apparently A Former Water Stain (Now Invisible, Obscured A Few Letters On P. 802; These Have Been Re-Inked. De Sanctis Has Written " From The Point Of View Of Intellectual Power It Is The Most Important Work Ever To Come From An Italian Mind." A Printing And The Mind Of Man Title. First Published In 1561, Twenty One Years After Guicciardini's Death. Fenton's English Translation Was First Printed In London In 1579 And Went Through Three Editions In Fifty Years. The First Edition Of 1594 Is Rarely Seen. This Copy Is Still Quite Readable.