Toledo (1526)
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Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea. Remón de Petras, Toledo, 1526.
This is the edition with 22 acts, with the act of Traso as act XIX.
25 images, most are factotums with the character names written above and a drop cap decorated letter. Included as complete images are: the cover or introduction, Celestina's death, that of Sempronio and Pármeno's (act XII, second illustration), the execution of them in another engraving (act XIII), Calisto climbing into the garden (act XIV, second illustration), Calisto's fall and death (act XXI, second illustration), and Melibea's suicide (act XXII, second illustration).
The same images are used in Juan de Ayala's Toledo edition (1538).
Description in the Edición e introducción crítica by Miguel Marciales (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1985), volume I, pg. 5: "R. Segunda de Toledo, junio 23, 1526. Remón de Petras. Incluye el Auto de Traso. Edición muy correcta que sigue a I y en algunos casos a G. Carece de materia conclusoria. Ejemplar único existente en el Museo Británico: c.63.c.24."
Bibliography
Griffin, Clive. “Four Rare Editions of ‘La Celestina.’” The Modern Language Review, vol. 75, no. 3, 1980, pp. 561–574. www.jstor.org/stable/3727974</a