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CASTILIO, Baldessar. The Courtyer ... divided into foure Bookes. Very necessary and profitable for yonge gentilmen & gentilwomen abiding in Court, Palaice or Place, done into English by Thomas Hoby, edited from the Cambridge University library copy of the editio princeps of 1561 by Janet E. Ashbee, and carried out under the supervision of C. R. Ashbee, [Essex House Press, 1900], 4°, contemporary vellum, ties, bookplate. LIMITED TO 200 COPIES. PRESENTATION COPY FROM JANET ASHBEE, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "To one of the 'good Courtyers' Gerald Michael Bishop from his 'especiall and hartye friend Janet Ashbee, Christmas 190."