ARIOSTO, LODOVICO. 1474-1533.
Orlando Furioso. Birmingham: John Baskerville for Pietro and Giovan Claudio Molini, 1773.
Orlando Furioso. Birmingham: John Baskerville for Pietro and Giovan Claudio Molini, 1773.
4 volumes. 8vo (232 x 145 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, 46 engraved illustrations by Bartolozzi and others, after Cipriani, Cochin, Eisen, Monnet, Jean-Michel Moreau le jeune, and others. Contemporary straight grain morocco gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Spines slightly sunned, a bit rubbed, scattered foxing, heavy in places.
Provenance: Stourhead Heirlooms Library (eagle head armorial symbol in gilt on spine); Mary S. Collins (bookplate).
Illustrated Italian-language edition of Ariosto's epic poem, with collaboration between the Molini brothers, publishers in Paris, the printer John Baskerville in England, and numerous skilled artists and engravers from Paris and London. Brunet I:438; Cohen-de Ricci 95; Gaskell 48; Ray French 64; Sander 44.
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Orlando Furioso. Birmingham: John Baskerville for Pietro and Giovan Claudio Molini, 1773.
Orlando Furioso. Birmingham: John Baskerville for Pietro and Giovan Claudio Molini, 1773.
4 volumes. 8vo (232 x 145 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, 46 engraved illustrations by Bartolozzi and others, after Cipriani, Cochin, Eisen, Monnet, Jean-Michel Moreau le jeune, and others. Contemporary straight grain morocco gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Spines slightly sunned, a bit rubbed, scattered foxing, heavy in places.
Provenance: Stourhead Heirlooms Library (eagle head armorial symbol in gilt on spine); Mary S. Collins (bookplate).
Illustrated Italian-language edition of Ariosto's epic poem, with collaboration between the Molini brothers, publishers in Paris, the printer John Baskerville in England, and numerous skilled artists and engravers from Paris and London. Brunet I:438; Cohen-de Ricci 95; Gaskell 48; Ray French 64; Sander 44.
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