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PHALARIS. Epistolae, [translated by Franciscus Aretinus], Sant'Orso: Johannes de Reno, 1475. 4° (188 x 127mm.). 50 leaves (of 52, lacks title and final blank), 26 lines, roman letter. (Spotted throughout). 20th-century vellum. Provenance: Giulio Bajamonte (19th-century purchase inscription at head of the first page of text).

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PHALARIS. Epistolae, [translated by Franciscus Aretinus], Sant'Orso: Johannes de Reno, 1475. 4° (188 x 127mm.). 50 leaves (of 52, lacks title and final blank), 26 lines, roman letter. (Spotted throughout). 20th-century vellum. Provenance: Giulio Bajamonte (19th-century purchase inscription at head of the first page of text).

One of only a handful of books printed at one of the two presses at Sant'Orso in the fifteenth century. HC (Add) 12894; BMC VII, 1027; Goff P-555.
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