ARETINO, Pietro. Dialogo nel quale si parla del Gioco con Moralita Piacevole, [colophon: Venice, per Bartolomeo detto l'Imperador, ad instantia di Melchior Sessa, 1545], 8°, FIRST EDITION, title with historiated woodcut border, with blank q8 (title slightly soiled and stained, h8 holed at lower margin, h8-i4 with small ink stain at outer margin), bound with -- Ragionamento nel quale Figura Quatro Suoi Amici, [no imprint], 1541, 8°, collation: A-G8, G8 blank, title with woodcut portrait of Aretino (later leaves dampstained, G7 holed with loss), 17th-century vellum ruled in gilt. [I: VDL Geschichte I, p. 434; Adams A1570].

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ARETINO, Pietro. Dialogo nel quale si parla del Gioco con Moralita Piacevole, [colophon: Venice, per Bartolomeo detto l'Imperador, ad instantia di Melchior Sessa, 1545], 8°, FIRST EDITION, title with historiated woodcut border, with blank q8 (title slightly soiled and stained, h8 holed at lower margin, h8-i4 with small ink stain at outer margin), bound with -- Ragionamento nel quale Figura Quatro Suoi Amici, [no imprint], 1541, 8°, collation: A-G8, G8 blank, title with woodcut portrait of Aretino (later leaves dampstained, G7 holed with loss), 17th-century vellum ruled in gilt. [I: VDL Geschichte I, p. 434; Adams A1570].

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