8vo. Title-page printed within woodcut architectural border, full-page woodcut on title verso, woodcut device on final leaf. (Some soiling or dampstaining.) Later vellum, spine gilt-lettered (covers bowed, some minor soiling). Provenance: Richard Horton Smith (1831-1919) English barrister, Masonic Lodge Officer (armorial bookplate); James V. Rice (bookplate).

Later edition. The first authorized edition of Sannazaro's work, based on his 1495 manuscript, was published in Naples in 1504. In Italy alone, more than 66 editions of Arcadia were published. RARE: according to online records, only one other copy of this edition has sold at auction in the last 45 years (sold Sotheby's London, 1975). Not in Adams.