Anónimo - Cronica del muy valeroso rey don Ferna[n]do, visnieto del Santo rey que gano a Sevilla - 1554

A volume in folio (28.1 x 18.8 cm), 19th century full leather binding, spine with label and gold embossing, supralibros on the front cover. 70 sheets, wrongly numbered, [LXXVIII], including the two-colour title page (red and black), with xylographic border, woodcut of the king on horseback at the centre. Sign.: A-H8, I6. Two-column print in Gothic script, 48 lines per page, wood engraved initials. First edition of the chronicle of King Ferdinand IV, being imaginary the news of the existence of a previous edition of Burgos, 1513 (v. Fernández Valladares, II-1459). 17th century ex libris handwritten in the title page. Marginal reinforcement. Maggs, Spanish Books: 'This is the sole edition, and is, like the chronicles of Alonso the Sage and of Sancho IV, extremely rare'. Palau, 64945; Salvá, 2886; Maggs, 299