TASSE (LE). La Gerusalemme liberata di Torquato Tasso... In - Lot 99

TASSE (LE). La Gerusalemme liberata di Torquato Tasso... In Padova, per Pietro Paolo Tozzi, 1628. In-4, [8] (including engraved title), 408 p., fig., pl., cherry partiche basane, 3-nerved spine, ornate caissons, gilt fleurons at spandrels, gilt roulette at edges, blue edges (binding rubbed, defects including missing title-piece, weak binding of boards, mq. upper guard; worm tract affecting q. letters and 2 figs without gravity; snag affecting q. letters p. 111). Edition containing a biography of the author, as well as a summary of each song by Bartolomeo Barbato, notes by Scipio Gentile and Giulio Guastavino, and a historical note. It is illustrated with an engraved title with architectural frame including a view of Jerusalem, a portrait of the author and twenty compositions, all engraved on full-page copperplate. Woodcut ornaments and initials. Provenance: Borges (modern signature on the title); mention of purchase in London in May 1826.