1566 · Geneva
by ESTIENNE, CHARLES
Geneva: Franciscus Perrinus, 1566. 8vo, ff. [2], 341; title within woodcut border, text in double column; title page defective with loss to bottom margin and top right corner causing loss to woodcut border (but no letterpress); also with neat repair to corners of second leaf (with loss to the ends of 3 lines), and the third through the sixth leaf (with minor loss in the upper corner); otherwise a nice, crisp copy in 19th century full mottled calf, black and red morocco labels on gilt decorated spine. A rare edition, not found in Adams, Schreiber, the French BM-STC or NUC; OCLC finds the Harvard and Brigham Young copies only; see Renouard, p. 104-05 for the first edition of 1553. The Preface by Charles Estienne in this edition does not appear in the 1553 first edition.
(Inventory #: 26380)