TASSO, LA GERUSALEMME LIBERATA, PARMA, 1581, LATER DICED CALF GILT

4to (214 x 147mm.), woodcut printer's device on title-page and final verso, woodcut initials and headpieces, nineteenth-century diced calf tooled in gilt and blind, spine gilt in compartments, occasional light spotting or staining, small repair to *2 with loss of a couple of letters, A1 repaired in gutter and with repaired tear at head, upper joint splitting, extremities slightly rubbed

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An early edition of Tasso's epic La Gerusalemme liberata, which was first published (without Tasso's approval) in Ferrara earlier in 1581. This is the second of two Viotti editions from 1581, which includes Tasso's allegories on each canto, as well as Orazio Ariosti's verse summary.