£75
12mo, pp. [xvi], 219, [1] + engraved title-page and 5 engraved plates. Contemporary vellum, spine lettered in ink. Some spotting and foxing. Binding rubbed and marked. Letterpress bookplate of John Croft to front pastedown, pencil ownership inscription of H. Sellers to front flyleaf.
A later reprint of the Italian pastoral poem that inspired Handel's opera as well as many madrigals in the seventeenth century. A catalogue of printers devices at the University of Barcelona suggests that the printer Tom[m]aso Alfano was active from around 1750 until 1763, and the engraver, Domenico dell'Acerra was mainly active in the latter half of the eighteenth century.
