Accession number
PML 75446
Creator
Ariosto, Lodovico, 1474-1533.
Published
London : Printed by G. Miller for I. Parker, 1634.
Credit line
Gift of Tessie Jones, 1975.
Notes
Signatures: [par.]8 A-2Q6 2R8 (missigning 2Q4 as 2R4).
The title page is engraved.
The engraved full page illustrations preceding each canto are copied from those prepared by Girolamo Porro for the edition published in Venice, 1584, by Francesco de Franceschi e compagni.
"The life of Ariosto briefly and compendiously gathered out of sundrie Italian writers [G. Porro, G. Garofolo, and S. Fornari)": p. 114 [i.e. 414]-423.
"The most elegant and wittie epigrams of Sir Iohn Harington, knight, digested into foure bookes" (with special t.p., dated 1633): [10]-[55] (last group)
Includes index.
The title page is engraved.
The engraved full page illustrations preceding each canto are copied from those prepared by Girolamo Porro for the edition published in Venice, 1584, by Francesco de Franceschi e compagni.
"The life of Ariosto briefly and compendiously gathered out of sundrie Italian writers [G. Porro, G. Garofolo, and S. Fornari)": p. 114 [i.e. 414]-423.
"The most elegant and wittie epigrams of Sir Iohn Harington, knight, digested into foure bookes" (with special t.p., dated 1633): [10]-[55] (last group)
Includes index.
Description
[18], 423, [55] p. (last p. blank) : ill., ports. ; 28 cm (fol.)
Binding
Calf, gilt.
Classification
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