12mo. Title-page printed in red and black and with woodcut globe device. (Minor spotting or browning to a few leaves.) 20th century tan morocco gilt, edges gilt, stamp-signed by Hardy (upper cover detached, some light rubbing or wear). Provenance: Unidentified armorial bookplate (motto: "Deo et Regi"); unidentified stamp to title verso ("La Scientia, Alere Flaman"); Charles Walker Andrews (1861-1946), American Lawyer (bookplate). 

FIRST EDITION, second issue, with the first line of the preface reading "Gl'amatori della lingua Toscana."  A reprint of the Giunta edition of 1527, the work of several humanists who collated Delfino's 1516 edition against important manuscript copies, including the important Mannelli copy made in 1382, and which superseded all previous editions. Brunet I:1002; Willems 1349.