Description
Tasso, Torquato. La Gerusalemme liberata. Genoa, Giuseppe Pavoni, 1617. In 2nd (290 x 195 mm); [16], 255, [1], 71, [1], 36, [4] pages. Antiporta, frontispiece and 20 copper-engraved plates from designs by Castello placed at the opening of each canto within elegant borders, subject within xylographic cartouche at the opening of each canto (defect and small iron stain to frontispiece, lower white margin of four papers restored, a few small stains in text, slightly short at head). Coeval bindings in bazzana with gilt friezes and gold title to spine (abrasions). Olschki, Choix XII, 18727: "Edition estimée et recherchée pour les jolies figures."
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Tasso, Torquato. La Gerusalemme liberata. Genoa, Giuseppe Pavoni, 1617. In 2nd (290 x 195 mm); [16], 255, [1], 71, [1], 36, [4] pages. Antiporta, frontispiece and 20 copper-engraved plates from designs by Castello placed at the opening of each canto within elegant borders, subject within xylographic cartouche at the opening of each canto (defect and small iron stain to frontispiece, lower white margin of four papers restored, a few small stains in text, slightly short at head). Coeval bindings in bazzana with gilt friezes and gold title to spine (abrasions). Olschki, Choix XII, 18727: "Edition estimée et recherchée pour les jolies figures."