Vitio Muliebre, Commedia del peregrino ingegno di Mariano Maniscalco da Siena. [Bound after:] Le Lettere delle Dame, e degli eroi [and:] Nuova aggiunta alle lettere [etc.].

Siena: [Luca Bonetti], 1575.

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Woodcut illus. on t.p., repeated on verso of leaf D3; woodcut printer’s device at end. Collation: A-D8. [64] pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. One leaf a bit closely trimmed (touching left border of repeated woodcut), else clean and sound; with a note in ink beneath the woodcut on last page dated 1779. In a defective late eighteenth century binding in patterned paper overboards (front inner hinge open, upper cover crudely repaired with modern papers). Good. OCLC: 800558194 (Mazarine); 49489571 (Univ. Chicago).

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Uncommon edition of a an early sixteenth century play (first published Siena, 1519), printed by Bonetti, printer at Siena from 1571 know for his vernacular and popular works. The last page is a nice woodcut device of Romulus and Remus suckling the she-wolf, and a later owner’s note below : “Il Quest libretto composto da me Luisa Nata a Riva olla Senna a l'anno 1779”

This little work is bound after the second edition of Francesco Della Valle, Le Lettere delle Dame. Venetia: Dal Ciotti, 1626; 1627. Engraved title page with arms of Federico Colonna, ornamental initials throughout. 186, [6]; 70 pp. Title page crudely backed; some staining. Lacking pp. 65/66 in the Nuova aggiunta alle lettere.