Padilla, Pedro de (1540-1599)
Iardin Espiritual.

Madrid: Querino Gerardo Flamenco, a Costa de Blas de Robles, 1585.

First edition, quarto, text contains three poems by Cervantes, woodcut printer's device to title; with G4 [leaf 52] printed separately and inserted to correct the printer's error of omission; bound in full contemporary limp parchment tooled in gilt with compartments ruled in ink; lacking ties, chipping with losses to yapp edges, 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.

Padilla was a personal friend of Cervantes. He is praised in Don Quixote and mentioned in the Galatea.

Palau 208367; Rius 379; Worldcat locates four copies worldwide, no copies in American libraries; rare at auction.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.