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<dl><dd>Binding: modern brown goatskin, tooled in gilt and blind</dd>
<dd>Signature on t.p. (Octauiani ?Prenci ?Cip.). Drawings on verso of final leaf</dd>
<dd>Sessa device on t.p. (cat &amp; mouse). The ill. have been selected from those originally appearing in Francesco Marcolini's Le sorti, intitolate Giardino di pensieri (Venice, 1540; 2nd ed. 1550); cf. R. Mortimer, Italian 16th cent., 279-280. Here the captions have been dropped and the significance reinterpreted. Head- and tail-pieces, initials</dd>
<dd>Signatures: a-c⁴ A-2I⁸ 2K⁴ (K2 signed X2; T3 signed S3)</dd>
<dd>Errata: p. [24]</dd>
<dd>Includes index</dd></dl><br>Subjects: History; Conduct of life</div>
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Astolfi, Gio. Felice (Giovanni Felice)</div>
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