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Small 4to (197 x 145 mm). Collation: a-b8, c4. 20 leaves. 27 lines. Roman and Greek types. Woodcut printer's device at end, initial spaces with guide-letters. (Title slightly soiled with short marginal tears, single worm-hole touching letters throughout, minor worm-hole to lower margin of a few leaves.) 20th-century half calf gilt (some light rubbing, minor losses to spine ends). Provenance: Old ownership inscriptions crossed out on title-page.  

FIRST EDITION with the first word on ff.3 as "Argumentum", and with the colophon as described in Hain.  A second edition of the same year has the first word on ff.3 in majuscules and the colophon as described in BMC. Beroaldus' well-known satire against drunkenness, whoring and gambling is written in the form of a dialogue between the three vices.  BMC VI, 845 (see note); BSB-Ink B-370; GW 4130; Goff B-471; Hain 2965.