Card game.- Berni (Francesco) Capitolo del gioco della primiera col comento di messer Pietropaulo da San Chirico, no place, no printer, 1526.

Card game.- Berni (Francesco) Capitolo del gioco della primiera col comento di messer Pietropaulo da San Chirico, collation: A-K4, italic type, woodcut initial incorporating a portrait, small section of foot of title repaired, stained, 18th century vellum, 8vo (135 x 89mm.), no place, no printer, [after 27 August, 1526].

⁂ Rare, undated edition, of this poem by the Tuscan Francesco Berni about the card game primiera, a forerunner of poker. EDIT 16 records only three copies.

Provenance: 'Ex Bibliotheca Card. [?]' (early stamp to title); Stuart R. Kaplan (bookplate to front pastedown).

Literature: EDIT 16 CNCE 5528; S. R. Kaplan, Encyclopaedia of Tarots, New York 1978, i, pp. 28-29.