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Il Goffredo, overo Gierusalemme liberata : poema heroico / del. Sig. Torquato Tasso ; con l'allegoria universale dell istesso, et con gli argomenti del Sig. Horatio Ariosti, & di bellissime figure adornato.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Elz V 4643 copy 2 v.1-2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595.
- Standardized Title:
- Gerusalemme liberata
- Language:
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Epic poetry, Italian--Early works to 1800.
- Epic poetry, Italian.
- Crusades--First, 1096-1099--Poetry.
- Crusades.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Krumbhaar, Edward Bell (autograph) (Elzevier Collection copy)
- Wizerher(?), Lorenz(?) (autograph) (Elzevier Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes (36 unnumbered pages, 37-271 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates; 285 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations, portrait ; 11 cm (32mo)
- Other Title:
- Gierusalemme liberata
- Fingerprint:
- s-o- n-o, 5.da vaSi (C) 1678 (R) v 1
- a.a, a.a, a.ia (7) AiEc 1678 (R) v 2
- Place of Publication:
- In Amsterdam : Nella stamperia del s. D. Elsevier, et in Parigi si vende appresso Thomaso Jolly ..., MDCLXXVIII [1678]
- Notes:
- Some plates are included in pagination.
- Signatures: v.1. A-R⁸; v.2. A-S⁸ (last leaf blank)
- Last leaf blank.
- Vol. 1 has engraved half-title: Gierusalemme liberata.
- Portrait of Tasso and other illustrations engraved by Sébastien Le Clerc. Cf. Willems.
- Includes a total of 22 engraved illustrations, some of which are included in pagination.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Dante and Tasso Library Fund.
- Elzevier Collecion copy has 2 vols. bound together in 1.
- Elzevier Collection copy: Imperfect: 4 plates wanting.
- Elzevier Collection copy has bookseller's description pasted on prelim. free endpaper.
- Elzevier Collecion copy 2 imperfect: volume 2 with quire " C" misbound following quire D.
- Elzevier Collecion copy 2 in full 18th century polished calf; all edges gilt.
- Elzevier Collecion copy 2 acquired in 2017 Alastar Rare Books Ltd.
- Cited in:
- STCN 851233058
- Brunet, G. Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres, V, col. 666
- Berghman, G. Impressions Elzeviriennes, 957
- Willems, A. Elzevir 1557
- Rahir, E. Les Elzevier, 1695
- Berghman, G. Suppl. à Willems, 401
- Copinger, H.B. Elzevier Press, 4643
- OCLC:
- 13048252
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