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La Gerusalemme liberata / di Torquato Tasso.

Accession number
PML 140072
Creator
Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595.
Published
Parigi : Apresso A. Delalain, P. Durand, G.C. Molini, 1771.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Engraved title pages with calligraphy by Drouët.
Illustrations: Engravings by Henriquez, Le Roy, Baquoy, Patas, Lingée, Née, Rousseau, Mesnil, Massard, Duclos, Leveau, Ponce, and Simonet after H. Gravelot, comprising frontispieces (v. 1: port. of Tasso; v. 2: Gravelot); vignettes on title pages; engraved dedication leaf; plate preceding each of the 20 cantos; full-page illustration at end of 14 cantos; headpiece to each canto (ports. of the characters, captioned in Italian); 9 tailpieces.
Printed by F.A. Quillau.
Description
2 v. ([2] l., 331 p.; [1] l., 340 p.) : ill. ; 30 cm
Provenance
Bookplate of C.A. and V. Baldwin; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Contemporary red morocco.
Classification
Department