Accession number
PML 198557
Creator
Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595.
Published
In Genoua : Appresso Giuseppe Pauoni, MDCXVII [1617].
Credit line
Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper D-1 Fund, 2020.
Notes
Title from first title page, with dedication to Charles Emmanuel.
Imprint from last page. Second title page: Stampata per Givseppe Pauoni ad instanza di Bernardo Castello in Genova.
Engraved t.p., followed by a 2nd with title: La Gerusalemme liberata di Torquato Tasso, con le annotationi di Scipion Gentili e di Giulio Guastavini, et li argomenti di Oratio Ariosti. Both t.p.'s includes ports. (Charles Emmanuel, Duke of Savoy; Tasso). Each of the 20 cantos is preceded by a full-page engraving by Camillo Cungi after Bernardo Castello, and by the argomento in woodcut border. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces, initials.
Signatures: [dagger]⁴ 2[dagger]⁴ A-Q⁸, ²A-D⁸ E⁴, ³A-B⁸ C⁴.
Imprint from last page. Second title page: Stampata per Givseppe Pauoni ad instanza di Bernardo Castello in Genova.
Engraved t.p., followed by a 2nd with title: La Gerusalemme liberata di Torquato Tasso, con le annotationi di Scipion Gentili e di Giulio Guastavini, et li argomenti di Oratio Ariosti. Both t.p.'s includes ports. (Charles Emmanuel, Duke of Savoy; Tasso). Each of the 20 cantos is preceded by a full-page engraving by Camillo Cungi after Bernardo Castello, and by the argomento in woodcut border. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces, initials.
Signatures: [dagger]⁴ 2[dagger]⁴ A-Q⁸, ²A-D⁸ E⁴, ³A-B⁸ C⁴.
Description
[16], 255, [1], 71, [1], 36, [4] p. : ill., ports. (engravings) ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Engravings are hand colored, with gold highlighting. Incipit woodcut initials also colored with gold.
Provenance
Unidentified modern (Italian?) armorial bookplates (front pastedown and front end leaf 1 verso); Williams Library, Cheltenham (active 19th century), stamp: “Williams Cheltenham,” George Arthur Williams, bookseller and merchant (front end leaf 1 verso); modern German booksellers' notes and price codes (front end leaves); Morgan Library & Museum, purchased from Sokol Books on the Lathrop C. Harper D-1 Fund, Sept. 2020.
Binding
17th-century northern Italian red morocco, gilt-tooled in fan pattern.
Classification
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