4to (200 x 140 mm). Roman type with headlines in gothic, 40 lines plus headline. collation: A⁶ a-d⁸ e⁶ f-h⁸ i¹⁰ k-l⁸ m⁶: 98 leaves. Title printed in red and black with woodcut printer's device, woodcut initials, typographical diagrams, early marginal annotations slightly trimmed at foওre-edge. (Marginal dampstaining to a few leaves, sm🐻all hole to inner margin from A1-a6, small rust holes to b3, slightly affecting text.)

binding: Plausibly contemporary brown morocco over pasteboards (205 x 147 mm), possibly Spain or Genoa, tooled in silver or low-grade gold (now oxidised), frame formed by single fillet and filled by repeated cornucopia, inner frame formed💃 by single fillet, mitred to corners, fleuron in corners, in centre 2 lozenges arranged vertically, surrounded by leaves, rosettes and small pomegranates, spine with 4 bands, stubs from 2 pairs of ties, edges gilt and gauffered to a pattern of saltires and dots. (Binding somewhat stained and scraped, wit♊h old repairs to spine ends and corners.)

provenance: Luis Bardón (d. 1964), Madrid bookseller, generic twentieth-century bookplate with name added in ink. acquisition: Purchased in 2000 from E.K. Schreiber, New York. references: BP16 102898; USTC 144406