Description
Woodcut initials and headpieces, some contemporary marginalia and underlining; dampstain to foot of title, prelims a little soiled and occasional marks elsewhere, with some quires toned, old wormtracks at start and end, but only the odd letter lost and sense wholly recoverable, ff. [28], 349, [1], small 8vo (collation: - 8 4 A-Z8 AA-XX8), contemporary Spanish blind-panelled calf over wooden boards, leather thong clasps, top and bottom edges red, later sixteenth-century decoration on the fore-edge comprising the title beneath two armorials (see below); top edge a little browned, binding slightly tight, repairs to edges and spine; erased inscription on flyleaf, early seventeenth-century ms. pressmark, nineteenth-century printed label pasted to foot of title-page: Biblioteca del excmo. Señor Marques de Astorga, recent discreet book label of K. J. Hewett to recto of terminal blank, very good