Author: Giovanni della Casa
Title: A Renaissance Courtesy-Book: Galateo of Manners and Behaviours
Description: Boston, The Merrymount Press, 1914. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 123p. Ec-library, original binding. A hardcover book bound in 1/4 beige cloth. Corners heavily rubbed, labels on spine and back cover, and title label heavily chafed. Library stamps, bookplate, call numbers, and card pocket on endpapers and title pages. Underlining in pencil on some pages, but majority of text is still clean. The binding is tight. A good, sturdy reading copy. A 16th-century book of etiquette by an Italian diplomat. Privately printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press of Boston, with introduction by J.E. Spingarn and title page by T.M. Cleland. Fair .

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