Chatsworth-John Sparrow copy.- Rota (Berardino) Carmina. Nunc tantum ab ipso edita. Elegiarum libri III. Epigrammatum liber. Sylvarum seu Metamorphoseon liber. Naenia, quae nuncupatur Portia, Naples, Giuseppe Cacchi, 1572.

Chatsworth-John Sparrow copy.- Rota (Berardino) Carmina. Nunc tantum ab ipso edita. Elegiarum libri III. Epigrammatum liber. Sylvarum seu Metamorphoseon liber. Naenia, quae nuncupatur Portia, collation: *4 ɫ4 A-S4, woodcut printer's device to title and verso of final f., large and small woodcut historiated initials, occasional spotting, 17th century speckled calf, gilt, rebacked in 19th century blind-stamped calf in compartments, with a black leather label, corners little worn, rubbed, [EDIT 16 CNCE 23454], small 4to (225 x 157mm.), Naples, Giuseppe Cacchi, 1572.

⁂ In part first edition, and the only edition to be edited by the poet.

Provenance: Dukes of Devonshire (Chatsworth bookplate); John Sparrow (book label, and a note from him in pencil 'Given me by Diana Parikian, September, 1985').