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This is one of the most complete collections
of editions of Baldassare Castiglione's Il libro del cortegiano known
to exist. The bulk of it was formed from the gift of books made by Sir
Herbert Thompson in 1921, and others from the collection of Huxley St.
John Brooks. The collection ranges from the Aldine editio princeps of
1528 to the translation by L.E. Opdyke which appeared in a limited edition
in 1902 with a bibliography of the editions of the work. In addition
to the 1528 edition the other four early editions of Aldus of 1533, 1541,
1545 and 1547, are all present. Of the 110 editions listed by Opdyke
as appearing before 1640, this collection contains sixty-one, and also
an edition of 1557, published in Paris by E. Graulleau, which once belonged
to William Lambard and bears his signature, not known to Opdyke. The
collection now comprises 102 separate editions of this book of which
seventy were published before 1800, including the first English version
translated by Thomas Hoby, printed in London by William Seres in 1561,
together with nine other English editions printed before 1640.
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