TASSO, Torquato. La Gerusalemme Liberata . Venice: Giambattista Albrizzi, 1745. 2° (445 x 295mm). Half-title, engraved frontispiece (neatly repaired tear along edge of platemark), title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved dedicatee's portrait, 20 engraved plates with separately engraved borders, each canto with engraved vignette head and tailpieces (5 full-page), engraved historiated initials. (One or two leaves with a short clean tear to lower margin, occasional light finger soiling.) 19th-century red morocco, covers with gilt rule and roll-tool borders, floral corner-pieces, spine in seven compartments with raised bands, lettered in one, the others with floral decoration, g.e. (joints and corners neatly reinforced, lightly rubbed). Provenance : leather booklabel tooled in gilt "From J.K.J. to E.S.D.". The first of Albrizzi's lavishly illustrated editions of the Gerusalemme Liberata , with each plate captioned with the name and arms of its sponsor: in the second edition, the names were replaced with verses from the poem. The work was dedicated to Queen Maria Theresa of Austria and Hungary: the engraved portrait of her is by Felix Polanzani after Giambatista Piazzetta. The other plates and illustrations are unsigned, but also after Piazzetta. Gamba p.285; Morazzoni p.256 (requires 20 unnumbered leaves and only 252 numbered: the present copy, however, appears complete).
TASSO, Torquato. La Gerusalemme Liberata . Venice: Giambattista Albrizzi, 1745. 2° (445 x 295mm). Half-title, engraved frontispiece (neatly repaired tear along edge of platemark), title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved dedicatee's portrait, 20 engraved plates with separately engraved borders, each canto with engraved vignette head and tailpieces (5 full-page), engraved historiated initials. (One or two leaves with a short clean tear to lower margin, occasional light finger soiling.) 19th-century red morocco, covers with gilt rule and roll-tool borders, floral corner-pieces, spine in seven compartments with raised bands, lettered in one, the others with floral decoration, g.e. (joints and corners neatly reinforced, lightly rubbed). Provenance : leather booklabel tooled in gilt "From J.K.J. to E.S.D.". The first of Albrizzi's lavishly illustrated editions of the Gerusalemme Liberata , with each plate captioned with the name and arms of its sponsor: in the second edition, the names were replaced with verses from the poem. The work was dedicated to Queen Maria Theresa of Austria and Hungary: the engraved portrait of her is by Felix Polanzani after Giambatista Piazzetta. The other plates and illustrations are unsigned, but also after Piazzetta. Gamba p.285; Morazzoni p.256 (requires 20 unnumbered leaves and only 252 numbered: the present copy, however, appears complete).
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