La Gerusalemme Liberata.

  • Tasso, Torquato
  • Firenze [Florence]: Presso Giuseppe Galletti 1828

£120

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Description

2 vols, 8vo, pp. xxvi, [ii], 250; 188 [recte 288] + frontispiece and 20 plates. Contemporary vellum, spines tooled direct in gilt. Somewhat spotted, some scattered foxing. Somewhat soiled, joints cracking at ends, hinges holding, labels lost, labels of vol. 1 sometime repainted. Armorial bookplate of Milliken to vol. 1 pastedown, ownership inscriptions of Anne Salisbury Meliora Ladaveze Adlercron to flyleaves, pencil gift inscription to flyleaf of vol. 1 dated 24.3.[19]63.

Notes

A Florentine printing of Tasso's 1581 epic poem. Worldcat locates 4 copies on three continents: St Mary's and Newman Colleges, Melbourne Australia, University of Delaware, Bibliotheque National de France, and Biblio et Archives National de Quebec. This copy bears the bookplate of Sir Robert Milliken-Napier, 9th Baronet, and the ownership signature of his wife Anne.

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