Dedication to Pius IV in Latin; all other text in Italian., Engraved title page; architectural border with portrait of Vignola., First issued in 1562; second issue 1563? with the thirty-two plates and without date or place of publication., Imperfect: ownership inscription rubbed from title page. No. 1 of 3 titles bound together., and Three states of the first edition exist. None have publication dates or place; The first is the dedication copy in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence; the second state has a five line printed addition on the preface leaf, and additional printed annotations on plates 7, 8, 12, 14, 18, 24 and 25; the third state has an additional 5 plates. Cf. Walcher Casotti.
Subject (Topic):
Architecture--Orders--Early works to 1800 and Decoration and ornament, Architectural--Early works to 1800
One woodcut depicts two men on a flying horse above a castle with a king and queen below; the queen holds a laurel wreath.
Alternative Title:
Valentin et Orson (French romance). English
Description:
Many signature marks omitted or misprinted. From the collection of Richard Heber, One of two known copies; the other, imperfect, in the British Museum. Manuscript notes in the hand of Richard Heber mounted on end paper.
BEIN Lbf48 L3 570a: Imperfect: Last [1] at end wanting, colophon has been trimmed and mounted on flyleaf. Booksellers label: The Brick Row Print and Book Shop, New Haven, Conn., Signatures: [pointing hand]² B-T⁴., The editor's dedicatory epistle signed: Margaret Ascham., and With a final colophon leaf.
Publisher:
Printed by Iohn Daye ...,
Subject (Name):
Ascham, Margaret, ed. and Day, John, 1522-1584, printer.
Subject (Topic):
Education--Early works to 1800. and Latin language--Study and teaching--Early works to 1800.