Orlando furioso from Baskerville in fine bindings
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BASKERVILLE PRESS IN NICE BINDINGS. ARIOSTO, LODOVICO. Orlando Furioso. Birmingham (Baskerville per Molini) 1773.
8:o (227x145 mm). Engraved portrait after Eisen by Tardieu, 46 engraved plates by Bartalozzi, Delaunay, Duclos a.o. after Cipriani, Eisen, Cochin, Moreau a.o. (complete, only slight foxing or offsetting). With subcriber's list in vol. 1.
Contemporary mottled full calf, slight wear, gilt borders, gilt edges of covers, richly gilt spines with red and green labels, 1 vol. with upper joint partly split, some damages at head and foot, gilt edges. All four volumes in modern red leather case, title in gilt on spine, marbled edges. Some browning and foxing. Some old notes to endpaper in vol. I, small namestamp (EK) on first free endpaper and on one title, some browning to titles. 4 volumes.
Collation: (6), lviii, (28), 362, (2 blanks), (2), 450, (2 blanks), (2), 446, (2 blanks), 446, (2) blanks) pp.
First edition in Italian. Brunet I, 438, Cohen-Ricci, 95-97, Sander 44.
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Auktionsnummer:
6220
Datum:
2015-06-16