LUBETT, DENISE Y., binder. RICHARD SHIRLEY SMITH, illustrator. Messer Pietro Mio. Letters between Lucrezia Borgia & Pietro Bembo. Translation & Preface [by] Hugh Shankland. [Marlborough:] Libanus Press 1985. 8vo, binding: 263 x 191 x 21mm. (10 3/8 x 7 7/16 x 7/8 in.), black Niger morocco, interlocking strapwork design of onlaid beige and terracotta morocco extending horizontally across covers and smooth spine and onto matching black morocco doublures, terracotta pastepaper endleaves, t.e.g., others gilt on the rough, the binder's initials and date 1987 blind-stamped on lower doublure, black cloth felt-lined folding box, title gilt-lettered on black morocco backstrip. LIMITED EDITION, no. 24 from the regular issue of 135 copies, of the edition of 150, signed by the illustrator, wood-engraved head- and tail-pieces by Richard Shirley Smith.

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LUBETT, DENISE Y., binder. RICHARD SHIRLEY SMITH, illustrator. Messer Pietro Mio. Letters between Lucrezia Borgia & Pietro Bembo. Translation & Preface [by] Hugh Shankland. [Marlborough:] Libanus Press 1985. 8vo, binding: 263 x 191 x 21mm. (10 3/8 x 7 7/16 x 7/8 in.), black Niger morocco, interlocking strapwork design of onlaid beige and terracotta morocco extending horizontally across covers and smooth spine and onto matching black morocco doublures, terracotta pastepaper endleaves, t.e.g., others gilt on the rough, the binder's initials and date 1987 blind-stamped on lower doublure, black cloth felt-lined folding box, title gilt-lettered on black morocco backstrip. LIMITED EDITION, no. 24 from the regular issue of 135 copies, of the edition of 150, signed by the illustrator, wood-engraved head- and tail-pieces by Richard Shirley Smith.