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(BLOOD LIBEL.) Ramírez, Jerónimo. De raptu Innocentis Martyris Guardiensis libri sex. [4], 64 leaves. 4to, 200x148 mm, contemporary blind-tooled leather over pasteboard, quite worn, crudely rebacked at an early date, front hinge split; contents dampstained, title loose, with old inscriptions and marginal wormholes, front free endpaper lacking. Madrid: Pedro Madrigal, 1592
first edition of a poem based on the alleged ritual murder of a Christian child by Jews in the Spanish town of La Guardia in 1490. The text by Ramírez was a key source for Lope de Vega's play on the subject, El Niño Inocente de La Guardia. This edition not in Palau; entry 51641 cites the reprint in Francisco Cerdá y Rico's 1781 Clarorum Hispanorum opuscula selecta.
