Tasso, La Gerusalemme liberata, Genoa, 1617, contemporary French red morocco gilt

Books from the Library of the Earls of Haddington, lots 105-131

TASSO, TORQUATO

La Gerusalemme liberata. Genoa: Giuseppe Pavoni, 1617

folio (296 x 203mm.), engraved dedication leaf, engraved title-page, woodcut initials, woodcut cartouche and full-page engraved illustration at start of each canto, contemporary French red morocco gilt, spine gilt in compartments with a fleur-de-lys tool, gilt edges, repaired tear at foot of A2, occasional light foxing, extremities slightly rubbed

LITERATURE:

USTC 4024470

PROVENANCE:

Samuel, inscription in ink on flyleaf