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(Limited Edition) Leonard Eckstein Opdyke (translated) The Book of the Courtier by Count Baldesar Castiglione (1528) Number 385 of five hundred, publishers' ivory coloured card cover, gilt tooled device to front board and lettering to spine, ex libris label Courtney Library to front pastedown, first gathering loosening from binding, medal in colour on title page and endpiece, descriptive tissue guards to 73 engraved plates, some very light instances of spotting generally to front or rear leaves, a very good copy indeed, Duckworth & Co, London, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, with the imprint of The De Vinne Press, 1902. Baldassare Castiglione (1478–1529), a courtier to Charles V, wrote his celebrated dialogue between 1508 and 1516 in Urbino and Rome. Hugely influential, it shaped 16th-century European courtly behaviour and inspired writers such as Shakespeare. This edition was printed by Theodore Low De Vinne (1828–1914), an American printer, typographic scholar, and co-founder of the Grolier Club (est. 1884).
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