Relatione delle Qualita' di Iacomo di Crettone fatta da Aldo Manutio all' illustrissimo ... Iacomo Boncompagno, Duca di Sora.
Manuzio, Aldo,1547-1597.
Vinegia [i.e Milan] : Appresso Aldo,
1581 [i.e. 1830].
A supposed type facsimile, printed in Milan by Tosi in 1830, of an original 1581 edition; the original 1581printed edition does not in fact appear to exist.
"This tract though professing to be written by Aldus in 1581, was in reality printed a few  years since by Tosi in imitation of the Aldine types. Thirty-seven copies only were printed.  Messrs Payne and Foss having purchased all the copies, in order to increase its rarity,  destroyed all but twelve copies, and the one remaining in the Editor's hands" (Evans, "Catalogue of the splendid, choice and curious library of P.A. Hanrott which will be sold by auction", 1833, I,  p. 98, no. 1668).
Binding. Bound in red morocco with gold tooling and Aldus device embossed on front and back boards.
In NLS copy on front free endpaper there is a MS copy, in 19th-century hand, of letter in French of M. de Milan.
Crichton, James, 1560-1582.