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1528. BOOK. (GOTHIC). MONER:. NEWLY PRINTED WORKS, BOTH IN PROSE AND IN VERSE, BY... MOST OF THEM IN THE CASTILIAN LANGUAGE AND SOME IN THEIR NATIVE CATALAN LANGUAGE, COMPOSED AT VARIOUS TIMES AND FOR NOBLE PURPOSES: WHICH. Barcelona: Carlos Amoros, 1528. Large 4º. Unpaginated, signed A8–F8, G4. A1 and A2 are facsimiles. The first text leaf is printed in two colors, and the colophon on the last leaf is in red. Gothic typeface. Illustrated woodcut capitals of varying sizes. Delicate galleries along the lower margin beginning with folio C, professionally restored. Some old water stains and slightly narrow margins. Bound in flexible period parchment, traces of lettering on the spine, new endpapers. The work collects the most important writings of Francesc de Moner y de Barutell (a native of Perpignan), in Spanish and Catalan, edited by his cousin Miquel Berenguer de Barutell. CCPB 18076-9, only two copies (one at the BNE and another at the BC). Aguiló 2119. Palau 175981: “One of the rarest books to come off the presses in Barcelona in the 16th century (Salvá). Moner deserved to be cited repeatedly by Menéndez y Pelayo in recognition of this work’s importance for our understanding of lyric poetry in Catalonia and Castile at the end of the 15th century.” Salvá’s copy was acquired by the British Museum.