CAROSO, FABRIZIO. Il Ballarino... Diviso in due Trattati; Nel primo de' quali si dimostra la diversità de i nomi, che si donno à gli atti et movimenti...ne i Balli... Nel secondo s'insegnano diverse sorti de Balli, & Balletti. Venice: Francesco Ziletti 1581. 4to, 231 x 174 mm. (9 1/8 x 6 7/8 in.), quarter sheep antique, spine gilt, a few chips to covers, hinges weak, quires r, Ii and Yy misbound, title repaired affecting several letters of imprint and with effaced circular collection stamp, repair to r1 obscuring 12 letters, marginal repair and small hole to q4 catching engraved border on verso, repaired marginal wormholes to first 16 leaves and to quires Hh-Ii, a few other minor mostly marginal wormholes or repairs. FIRST EDITION, second issue, with printer's woodcut device on title, engraved portrait, 7 full-page engravings of dancers by Giacomo Franco repeated to 22, with the 7th engraving on q4 and with an engraving on e3v (cf. variants noted by Mortimer), letterpress music notation with lute tablature, woodcut decorative and historiated initials and head- and tail-pieces. Adams C-755; Harvard/Mortimer Italian 106; Niles & Leslie p. 86 ("one of the two rare books on technique of the 16th century"). Effaced early ownership inscription on title; Kansas City Public Library, inkstamp and pencilled call number on A2r.