TASSE (Torquato Tasso, known as le). La Giervsalemme liberat - Lot 133

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TASSE (Torquato Tasso, known as le). La Giervsalemme liberat - Lot 133
TASSE (Torquato Tasso, known as le). La Giervsalemme liberata [ ] Con [ ] le Annotationi di Scipio Gentili, e di Giulio Guastavini. In Genova, [Gênes, Girolamo Bartoli], 1590, small in-4° (178 x 257 mm), calf, wide gilt fillet and small-iron lace frame on covers, central finial, ornate ribbed spine, gilt and chased edges (Italian binding of the period). 255 + [VIII] + 72 + 40 pp. (with some pagination errors) FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Text on two columns. A title with architectural decoration surmounted by a medallion portrait of the author and twenty full-page figures by Bernardo CASTELLO, engraved on copper by Agostino CARRACHE and Giacomo FRANCO; ornate cartouches, bands, lettrines and culs-de-lampe. Copy includes the figure for Canto IV, which is different from that for Canto V (which is not always the case). Minor damage to head-cap; skilful restoration; manuscript bookplate in margin of title redacted; small restored lack in margin of plate for Canto IV; small wetness affecting first six leaves; some foxing, but a very good copy in an Italian binding. A VERY FINE COPY IN A CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN BINDING. "Sought-after edition because of the engravings by Aug. Carracci and Jacq. Franco", (Brunet, V, 665).
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