The Book of the Courtier [First Thus, Limited Edition] Castiglione, Count Baldesar / Translated From the Italian and Annotated by Opdycke, Leonard Eckstein BIO & AUTOBIOGRAPHY & HOLLYWOOD,HISTORY

Frontis-piece with captioned tissue guard, xiii, 439pp, [1], bound in limp vellum with yap fore-edges, gilt still bright, binding and hinges tight, deckled page edges. LIMITED EDITION, this being No. 137 of five hundred numbered copies. All plates accounted for and present, each with their attached captioned tissue guards. Covers show foxing, interior shows a label for previous ownership inside the front cover, some pages untrimmed, very small upper corner worm hole on back preliminary pages, not affecting the text in any way. Edward Bierstadt is the brother of the famous landscape painter, Albert Bierstadt.