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Hardcover, light blue cloth in publisher’s dust-jacket. 265 pages. Boldly flatsigned by author on front free end-paper. Notes, Bibliography, Index. Illustrated throughout with black and white reproductions of Renaissance art. First edition, first printing with full number line. Saslow’s seminal work employs the Ganymede myth as a trope for not only discussing but legitimizing the concept of homosexuality during the Renaissance. A clean, fresh and unmarked copy, near fine in a near fine dust-jacket.