Orlando Furioso di Lodovico Ariosto (5 Volumi)

Features

Author:  Lodovico Ariosto

Publisher:  Della Raccolta di Cazin

Place of printing:  Paris

Year of publication:  1786

Product Condition:
Work in good condition in five volumes. Full leather bindings with gilt titles and decorations on the spines and boards framed by gilt fillets: brown spots on the boards; slight abrasions on the spines, hinges, edges and slightly curved corners; minimal losses on the upper portion of the covers of volumes 1, 2 and 3; wormholes on the hinges of volumes 4 and 5. Marbled back covers and flyleaves. Calligraphic writings Ex libris on the leaves preceding the loop and on the recto of the last flyleaf. Gilded edges with dust spots. Well preserved leaves, slightly browned with rare foxing; first leaves of the volumes with particularly darkened margins, with the exception of volume 3. Below are some specifications for the various volumes: In the first volume: foxing on the frontispiece, in a and in L; typographical error on page 197: we find R2 indicated instead of R3. In the second volume: the calligraphic writing Ex libris is found on the verso of the first flyleaf, which has a torn edge and is therefore partly illegible; minimal loss on the lower internal corners of the first two leaves; brown stain in A2; damp stain on the external lateral margin in G; brown stain in the centre of the large letter K. In the third volume: small mould stain on the lower edge in F4. In the fourth volume: minimal loss on the lateral edge of the first flyleaf and on the lower external corner of the loop; scattered small brown stains on the text, some slightly more extensive on the large letter N. In the fifth volume: brown stain in the centre in F3; torn lower edge on the last white leaf. Text in Italian.

Pages:  (8),XXXVI,225,(3);(6),266,(2);(6),270,(4);

Format:  In twenty-fourth

Dimensions (cm):
Height:  12
Width:  8

Description

Elegant eighteenth-century edition of Ariosto's poem embellished with sober engraved headpieces and a portrait of the author on the frontispiece of the first volume

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