366 - c. 1788

c. 1788 BOOK. (PICARESQUE LITERATURE). [CROCE, GIULIO CESARE DELLA:]. THE STORY OF THE LIFE, DEEDS, AND EXTREMELY SUBTLE TRICKS OF THE PEASANT BERTOLDO, THAT OF BERTOLDINO, HIS SON, AND THAT OF CACASENO, HIS GRANDSON. Barcelona: Printed by Vda. Piferrer, s.a. Small 8vo. 3 leaves + 293 pp. + 5 leaves. Engraved frontispiece and full-page woodcuts throughout the work. Slight rust discoloration. An old handwritten ex-libris on the title page, and another on a label. Bound in recent parchment, spine labeled. Palau does not list this edition. CCPB 959151-6. Croce published his first Bertoldo in 1606 and shortly thereafter added a sequel about his son Bertoldino; Abbot Adriano Banchieri also published another sequel about the grandson, Cacaseno. They are usually offered together.