[Fine Binding | Bayntun | Essex House Press] The Courtyer of Count Baldessar Castilio Drop 4 with the front cover featuring

with the front cover featuring an art nouveau design of inlaid orange lotus flowers (accented with red) and inlaid deep green lily pads

Gilt ruled turn-ins with light grey endpapers

Annie Crowninshield

Loosely inserted are multiple letters addressed to the author recounting Rossetti works

"In about 1903

[Fine Binding | Bayntun | Essex House Press] The Courtyer of Count Baldessar Castilio Drop 4 with the front cover featuringCastiglione, Baldassare. The Courtyer of Count Baldessar Castilio Very Necessary and Profitable for Yonge Gentilmen & Gentilwomen abiding in Court, Palaice or Place, done into Englyshe by Thomas Hoby. London: Essex House Press, 1900. Limited to 200 copies, of which this is #. "Edited from the Cambridge University Library copy of the "Editio Princeps" of 1561, by Janet E. Ashbee, and carried out under the supervision of C. R. Ashbee, from whose hand is