219 - ARIOSTE (Ludovico Ariosto, known as L’).

ARIOSTE (Ludovico Ariosto, known as L’). Orlando Furioso. Birmingham, G. Baskerville, 1773–(1775). 4 volumes, large 8vo. Contemporary red morocco, ribbed spine, title and volume number in gold, a gold “B” stamped at the bottom of the spine, compartments decorated with small ironwork and edged with a double fillet, triple gilt fillet with fleurons at the corners, double fillet on the cut edges, scrolls on the raised bands, all gilt (slight scuffing on the bindings, particularly on the caps, oxidation). Bibliography: Cohen, 95. Description: A very fine edition in a binding attributed to Derôme. Complete with the author’s portrait, engraved on copper after Eisen by Fiquet, and the 46 superb plates, engraved on copper in black after Cipriani, Cochin, Eisen, Greuze, Menuet, and Moreau, and engraved on copper in black by Bartolozzi, Choffard, Duclos, de Ghendt, Helman, Henriquez, de Launay, de Longueil, Martini, Massard, Aloreau, Ponce, Prévost, and Simonet. Although the titles of Volumes II, III, and IV bear the date 1773, they were not completed until 1775 (Cohen). Volume I. (3) ff., LVIII–362 pp., 1 portrait and 12 plates; Volume II. (1) f., 450 pp., 11 plates; Volume III. (1) folio, 446 pp., 12 plates; Volume IV. (1) folio, 446 pp., (14) folios, including one blank page, 11 plates.