Vitio Muliebre, Commedia del peregrino ingegno di Mariano Maniscalco da Siena. [Bound after:] Le Lettere delle Dame, e degli eroi [and:] Nuova aggiunta alle lettere [etc.]

Siena: [Luca Bonetti], 1575. Woodcut illus. on t.p., repeated on verso of leaf D3; woodcut printer’s device at end. Collation: A-D8. [64] pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. One leaf a bit closely trimmed (touching left border of repeated woodcut), else clean and sound; with a note in ink beneath the woodcut on last page dated 1779. In a defective late eighteenth century binding in patterned paper overboards (front inner hinge open, upper cover crudely repaired with modern papers). Good. Woodcut illus. on t.p., repeated on verso of leaf D3; woodcut printer’s device at end. Collation: A-D8. [64] pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Uncommon edition of a an early sixteenth century play (first published Siena, 1519), printed by Bonetti, printer at Siena from 1571 know for his vernacular and popular works. The last page is a nice woodcut device of Romulus and Remus suckling the she-wolf, and a later owner’s note below : “Il Quest libretto composto da me Luisa Nata a Riva olla Senna a l'anno 1779”

This little work is bound after the second edition of Francesco Della Valle, Le Lettere delle Dame. Venetia: Dal Ciotti, 1626; 1627. Engraved title page with arms of Federico Colonna, ornamental initials throughout. 186, [6]; 70 pp. Title page crudely backed; some staining. Lacking pp. 65/66 in the Nuova aggiunta alle lettere. OCLC: 800558194 (Mazarine); 49489571 (Univ. Chicago)