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Copy printed on fine paper of this elegant edition of Ariosto's masterpiece illustrated with engravings by some of the most celebrated Parisian and London artists of the time. The publisher John Baskerville (1706-1775) began work on the book on commission from the Molini brothers, important continental publishers active in Paris; the text was corrected by the editors from the 'errors of language, sense and orthography, all of which abound in other editions' (trans.) and enriched with over 40 illustrations from drawings by Giovanni Battista Cipriani, Charles Nicolas Cochin, Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Charles Monnet and Jean-Michel Moreau the Younger. 4 volumes, large 8vo, (230 x 145mm). Frontispiece portrait of the author, 46 engraved plates at the opening of each canto from drawings by Cipriani, Cochin, Eisen, Monnet, Jean-Michel Moreau the Younger and others, text on carta velina (foxing, the plate of canto 16 with repaired tear at the outer margin). Modern red morocco, spine and boards gilt, yellow edges, within slipcase. (4)

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Copy printed on fine paper of this elegant edition of Ariosto's masterpiece illustrated with engravings by some of the most celebrated Parisian and London artists of the time. The publisher John Baskerville (1706-1775) began work on the book on commission from the Molini brothers, important continental publishers active in Paris; the text was corrected by the editors from the 'errors of language, sense and orthography, all of which abound in other editions' (trans.) and enriched with over 40 illustrations from drawings by Giovanni Battista Cipriani, Charles Nicolas Cochin, Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Charles Monnet and Jean-Michel Moreau the Younger. 4 volumes, large 8vo, (230 x 145mm). Frontispiece portrait of the author, 46 engraved plates at the opening of each canto from drawings by Cipriani, Cochin, Eisen, Monnet, Jean-Michel Moreau the Younger and others, text on carta velina (foxing, the plate of canto 16 with repaired tear at the outer margin). Modern red morocco, spine and boards gilt, yellow edges, within slipcase. (4)

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