The Book of the Courtier Baldassare Castiglione
1948. Reprinted. 324 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth covered boards. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding slightly loose. Some marginalia and inscriptions. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Small bookshop label to front pastedown. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Some additional moderate marks and staining. Boards are slightly bowed.