Aretino, Pietro | Translates literally as Dialogue by Pietro Aretino in which the game is spoke of with pleasant morality

Aretino, Pietro
Dialogo di Pietro Aretino nel quale si parla del gioco con moralita piacevole. [Colophon]: In Vinegia [Venice]: Per Bartolomeo detto l'Imperador, ad instantia di messer Melchior Sessa, 1545

8vo (156 x 108 mm). Title within a woodcut border of putti astride grotesques; mild dampstaining throughout, chiefly in lower inner margins, otherwise a fine bright copy. Contemporary limp vellum, yapp edges; some staining and soiling.

Second edition. Dialogue between a man from Padua and a playing card, including the first description of a "hold out" machine.

REFERENCE:
Adams A1570

Condition Report:
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