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La Gerusalemme Liberata, Italian Language
Tasso, Torquato · Londra
- Author
- Tasso, Torquato
- Date
- 1822
- Place
- Londra
- Publisher
- G. Pickering
- Language
- Italian
- Binding
- 32mo.(1.75" x 3.25") Two volumes complete. 405, (3) pp, continuous pagination. Full brown mottled leather with decorative blindstamp rule framing boards with gilt devices at each corner of frame. Spine with blindstamp decoration and gilt lettering. All edges marbled, dark green endpapers. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed, some through to boards.Head and foot of spine chipped with small loss , more so to foot of Vol.I (see pic). Vol.I with engraved title page and engraved frontispiece of Tasso, engraved title page dated 1822, Vol.II dated 1822. An adorable set of two small volumes, complete unto itself. Italian text.
- Category
- Literature & Poetry
- Record
- S.I.10133
La Gerusalemme Liberata, Italian Language. Tasso, Torquato.
La Gerusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Delivered) is Torquato Tasso’s great Renaissance epic poem, set during the First Crusade and centered on the Christian campaign to capture Jerusalem. It combines warfare, chivalry, romance, religious conflict, enchantment, and tragedy, with famous episodes involving Rinaldo and Armida and Tancredi and Clorinda.
1822. London: G. Pickering. 32mo.(1.75" x 3.25") Two volumes complete. 405, (3) pp, continuous pagination. Full brown mottled leather with decorative blindstamp rule framing boards with gilt devices at each corner of frame. Spine with blindstamp decoration and gilt lettering. All edges marbled, dark green endpapers. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed, some through to boards.Head and foot of spine chipped with small loss , more so to foot of Vol.I (see pic). Vol.I with engraved title page and engraved frontispiece of Tasso, engraved title page dated 1822, Vol.II dated 1822. An adorable set of two small volumes, complete unto itself. Italian text.
Condition
Near Fine
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