Orlando furioso / di Lodovico Ariosto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ariosto, Lodovico, 1474-1533

Contributor:

Barotti, Giovanni Andrea, 1701-1772.

Ruscelli, Girolamo, -approximately 1565.

Gonzaga, Luigi, 1500-1532.

Cochin, Charles Nicolas, 1715-1790, Illustrator.

Greuze, Jean-Baptiste, 1725-1805., Illustrator.

Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1772., Engraver.

Eisen, Charles, 1720-1778., Illustrator.

Ficquet, Etienne, 1719-1794., Engraver.

Choffard, Pierre-Philippe, 1730-1809., Engraver.

Cipriani, Giovanni Battista, 1727-1785., Illustrator.

Delaunay, Nicolas, 1739-1792., Engraver.

Moreau, Jean Michel, 1741-1814, Illustrator.

Prévost, Benoît Louis, approximately 1735-1804?, Engraver.

Baskerville, John, 1706-1775., Printer.

Molini, Peter., Bookseller.

Molini, Giuseppe, 1772-1856, Bookseller.

G.H. Last (Firm), Former owner.

Turner, Evan H., Donor.

Turner, Albert Morton., Former owner.

Watts, Edward Hanslope., Former owner.

Beauchamp-Proctor, William, Sir., Former owner.

British Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Epic poetry, Italian.

Roland (Legendary character)--Romances.

Roland (Legendary character).

Genre:

Poems -- 1773.

Armorial bookplates (Provenance).

Physical Description:

4 v. : ill., port. ; 27 cm. (8vo)

Place of Publication:

Birmingham [England], : Da' torchj di G. Baskerville: per P. Molini Librajo dell' Accademia Reale, e G. Molini., M.DCC.LXXIII. [1773]

Notes:

Includes [47] plates with frontispiece port. of Ariosto by Eisen after Titian, engraved by Ficquet; 46 other plates after Cipriani, Moreau le jeune, Cochin, and Greuze, engraved by Bartolozzi, Choffard, Delaunay, Prevost and others.

"Vita di Lodovico Ariosto, scritta dal dottore Giovanni Andrea Barotti ...": v. 1, p. [i]-lii. "

"Avertimenti di Geronimo Ruscelli": v. 1., p. [liii]-lvii.

"Stanze di Luigi Gonzaga, detto Rodomonte a M. Lodovico Ariosto": v. 4, p. [427]-431.

Leaf A8 and D2 of v.4 are cancels.

Dedication signed: Pietro Molini.

In octavo format; a variant has the same setting of type but issued in quarto format, with reset direction lines. Cf. ESTC. T133620.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Exhibited: "Three generations of book collectors," at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 2012.

Athenaeum copy inscribed: Edward Hanslope Watts, Hanslope Park Bucks; also with armorial bookplate of Sr. Wm. Beachamp Proctor, Bt.; copy has correspondence from bookseller G. H. Last ( Kent, England) dated June 21st, 1941 laid in; this copy does not include list of subscribers.

Athenaeum copy: Gift of: Evan H. Turner (2006), from the collection of Professor Albert Morton Turner (1890-1976).

Cited in:

Ray, G.N. Art of the French illustrated book, 64 (this copy)

Gaskell, P. Baskerville, 48a

Cohen-De Ricci, 94-97

ESTC (BL) T133621