"I cinque canti" and "Osservationi" have special title pages, engraved by G. Franco.
Bookplate of Bibliotheca Pezoldiana.
HIGH RESERVE; for bindings study only.
Includes index.
Initials; engraved full page illustration and head-piece precede each canto.
Issued without letterpress t.p. Engraved title page, with architectural border and portrait of author, by G. Porro.
Library's copy has the original Italian plate for canto 34 pasted down over the duplicate plate 33. This copy has the original signature T: leaf T3r line 5 has reading "ricozzati"; leaf T6r, line I of text reads "Molti con" and catchword is "Il palafren". Portrait of Ariosto, engraved by J. Sandrart after Titian, inserted after t.p. Lacking final blank. N
Signatures: *⁴ 2*-3*⁸ A-Z⁸ a-u⁸, a-l⁴ (2*4, l4, t4 missigned *4, 2L4,*T4).
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Orlando furioso / di M. Lodovico Ariosto.
Accession number:
PML 75105
Published:
In Venetia : Appresso Francesco de Franceschi ... , [1584]
Description:
[40], 654, [34] p., 43, [1] leaves : ill. ; 29 cm (4to)
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Bound in red morocco, gold-tooled to a design of two panels; the outer border is filled with a bird-in-line roll sometimes attributed to Albert Magnus; cf. M. Foot (Davis 18). In PML case.
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