Il Goffredo ouero La Gierusalemme liberata di Torquato Tasso.
Torquato Tasso (1544-1595)
Category
Books
Date
1644
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3021242
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12], 502, [2] p. ; fol. Running number: 7277. Provenance: armorial bookplate on front pastedown, anonymous (not listed in Franks): arms of John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire (1723-1793) and his second wife Caroline Conolly (ca. 1755–1817, m. 1770), with Buck and Talbot supporters, and earl's coronet. With occasional marginal markings in red crayon within text, e.g. pp. 2-7, 10-25, 28-35, 62-63, etc. Binding: eighteenth-century full calf; sewn onto six cords; double gilt fillet border; gilt roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled spine, with stamp, roll and fillet decoration; gilt title on brown goatskin label on spine. Red burnished textblock edges. Marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Torquato Tasso (1544-1595), author Sebastian Furck (1589-1666), engraver (printmaker) Gilles Rousselet (1610-1686), engraver (printmaker) Jacques Stella (Lyon 1596 - Paris 1657), photographer