Accession number
PML 196206
Creator
Ariosto, Lodovico, 1474-1533.
Published
Imprinted at London : By Richard Field ..., 1591.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Katharine J. Rayner in memory of S. Parker Gilbert, 2016.
Notes
First English-language edition.
Signatures: [par.]⁸A-P⁶Q⁴R-2N⁶2O⁴.
Page [11] at end a blank.
Numerous errors in paging.
"The life of Ariosto briefly and compendiously gathered out of sundrie Italian writers by Iohn Harington": p. 114 [i.e. 414]-423.
Colophon: Imprinted at London by Richard Field dwelling in the Black-friers by Ludgate. 1591.
Title-page, engraved by Thomas Cockson, includes portraits of Ariosto and Harington; around Ariosto's portrait is engraved "Il divino Ludovico Ariosto."
Printer's mark (McKerrow 170) on last leaf.
Errata: p. [432]
The engraved full page illustrations preceding each canto are reengraved from those prepared by Girolamo Porro for the edition published at Venice in 1584.
"A preface, or rather a briefe apologie of poetrie ... ": verso of 2d prelim. leaf - verso of 8th prelim. leaf.
The first 50 stanzas of book 32 were translated by Francis Harington, Sir John's younger brother.
For details on this edition see "Studies in bibliography" 36 (1983), p. 137-68.
"Most copies are ordinary folio; of the others some are large-paper folio (I L, Duke U, I Pirie) and some have been printed on thick 4° paper (I C. E², LC, I Pirie). Some copies (HD ordinary folio and the C, LC 4°s) have a slip W. 'ESQVIRE.' pasted below Harington's name on the tp. Some of the special-paper copies are hand-coloured; see Greg, Register B, p. 46. [Stationer's register]." -- STC.
The Morgan copy is on large-paper, ruled, with the illustrations and ornaments colored by hand.
Signatures: [par.]⁸A-P⁶Q⁴R-2N⁶2O⁴.
Page [11] at end a blank.
Numerous errors in paging.
"The life of Ariosto briefly and compendiously gathered out of sundrie Italian writers by Iohn Harington": p. 114 [i.e. 414]-423.
Colophon: Imprinted at London by Richard Field dwelling in the Black-friers by Ludgate. 1591.
Title-page, engraved by Thomas Cockson, includes portraits of Ariosto and Harington; around Ariosto's portrait is engraved "Il divino Ludovico Ariosto."
Printer's mark (McKerrow 170) on last leaf.
Errata: p. [432]
The engraved full page illustrations preceding each canto are reengraved from those prepared by Girolamo Porro for the edition published at Venice in 1584.
"A preface, or rather a briefe apologie of poetrie ... ": verso of 2d prelim. leaf - verso of 8th prelim. leaf.
The first 50 stanzas of book 32 were translated by Francis Harington, Sir John's younger brother.
For details on this edition see "Studies in bibliography" 36 (1983), p. 137-68.
"Most copies are ordinary folio; of the others some are large-paper folio (I L, Duke U, I Pirie) and some have been printed on thick 4° paper (I C. E², LC, I Pirie). Some copies (HD ordinary folio and the C, LC 4°s) have a slip W. 'ESQVIRE.' pasted below Harington's name on the tp. Some of the special-paper copies are hand-coloured; see Greg, Register B, p. 46. [Stationer's register]." -- STC.
The Morgan copy is on large-paper, ruled, with the illustrations and ornaments colored by hand.
Description
[18], 423, [11] p. : ill. ; 32 cm. (fol. in 6s)
Provenance
Inscribed on title page in 1611 [? possibly 1612, 1613 or 1615] by Maximilian Waad, noting that this was a gift of Lady Arabella Stuart. Bookplates of Frank Brewer Bemis, Frances Hofer, and Robert S Pirie. Front flyleaf with annotations by Philip Hofer dated 4 Feb. 1949.
Binding
Seventeenth-century red morocco with a gilt-tooled panel design, rebacked with the original spine laid down, edges gilt and gauffered, marbled endpapers.
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