L'Orlando furioso di Lodovico Ariosto. T.I.
Lodovico Ariosto (1474-1533)
Category
Books
Date
1781
Materials
Place of origin
Italy
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 3051640
Summary
Bibliographic description
4v. . ill.. (plates), port.. . 12mo.. Provenance: manuscript inscriptions on front pastedown of each vol.: "O Leycester", and "Stamford Weybridge" [i.e. William Grey, 9th Earl of Stamford (1850-1910)]. manuscript inscription on vol. 1 front fly-leaf: "Oswald Leycester for his beloved daughter Catherine Stanley 1822" [i.e. Catherine Stanley, nee Leycester (d..1862), wife of Edward Stanley (1779-1849), Bp of Norwich from her father the Rev. Oswald Leycester (ca.1752-1848), Rector of Stoke]. Binding: Eighteenth-century sprinkled calf bindings; gilt roll on board edges; gold-tooled spines.
Makers and roles
Lodovico Ariosto (1474-1533)