This 1517 Lyon printing of one of the works of GB Castiglione, a humanist and sometime tutor to the future Elizabeth I, sold for £3200 at Forum Auctions.
It bears the arms of Henry VIII and his first queen, Katherine of Aragon, on both covers.
Forum Auctions (25/20/12% buyer’s premium), which noted that it was contemporaneous with the work of the binder John Reynes and similar to one of his bindings now in the library of St Johns College, Cambridge, sold it for £3200 on May 24.
