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[BIESTON, Roger]. The Bayte and Snare of Fortune ... treated in a dialoge betwene man and money. London: John Wayland, [ca 1556].
2o (316 x 206 mm). Collation: A6 B4. Black letter, in verse. Title within woodcut architectural border (McKerrow and Ferguson 76), two woodcut opening initials. (Some browning, lower margins waterstained, some short tears to lower margins, final leaf with two marginal repairs, one slightly affecting headline on verso, and tear at lower inner corner.) Late 19th-century brown half morocco, edges gilt, by Eedy. Provenance: 11-line quotation from Collier's Bibliographical Catalogue in a 19th-century hand on front flyleaf -- Lord Cunliffe (armorial bookplate dated 1926) -- purchased from Maggs Bros., London, 18 February 1971.
FIRST EDITION. A translation in eight-line stanzas from the French version by C. Platin, Le debat de lhomme et de l'argent, of an Italian original. As STC notes, the work is sometimes found bound with Wayland's 1554? edition of Boccaccio's Tragedies [De casibus illustrium virorum] [STC 3178] in place of the suppressed edition of William Baldwin's A Memorial of suche Princes [STC 1246]. Bieston's name is in an acrostic on B4v. STC 3055.
2o (316 x 206 mm). Collation: A6 B4. Black letter, in verse. Title within woodcut architectural border (McKerrow and Ferguson 76), two woodcut opening initials. (Some browning, lower margins waterstained, some short tears to lower margins, final leaf with two marginal repairs, one slightly affecting headline on verso, and tear at lower inner corner.) Late 19th-century brown half morocco, edges gilt, by Eedy. Provenance: 11-line quotation from Collier's Bibliographical Catalogue in a 19th-century hand on front flyleaf -- Lord Cunliffe (armorial bookplate dated 1926) -- purchased from Maggs Bros., London, 18 February 1971.
FIRST EDITION. A translation in eight-line stanzas from the French version by C. Platin, Le debat de lhomme et de l'argent, of an Italian original. As STC notes, the work is sometimes found bound with Wayland's 1554? edition of Boccaccio's Tragedies [De casibus illustrium virorum] [STC 3178] in place of the suppressed edition of William Baldwin's A Memorial of suche Princes [STC 1246]. Bieston's name is in an acrostic on B4v. STC 3055.