ERASMUS

ERASMUS. Epistolarum floridarum liber unus. Antwerp, Jean Steelsium, 1540. In-12, new edition illustrated with an engraved portrait on the title page. Bound in full contemporary fawn basane, boards framed with cold filets, gilded fleurons in the spandrels and a central iron medallion of foliage on a gilded sifted background, spine with 4 raised bands. Handwritten bookplate on title page.