La secchia rapita, poema eroicomico /. di Alessandro Tassoni.
Alessandro Tassoni (1565-1635)
Category
Books
Date
1766
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3077660
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. ([15] leaves of plates) :. ill ;. 8vo. Accession no. 5420.1-2. Catalogued from Barber catalogue. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Binding: eighteenth-century Italian armorial bookplate of Count Sperello Aurelj; bought by T.E. Jones in Perugia 7 June 1876 (pencil note). English price code. 1897 Waddesdon catalogue, p. 83. Binding: eighteenth-century French red morocco, triple fillet, flower at inner corners; flat spine, gilt, and with green lettering- and numeration pieces. Turn-ins with roll. Green silk marker, green and white headbands, gilt edges, leaf-marbled endleaves. Attributed to N.-D. Derome on account of the use on the spine of the six-petal pink tool, pomegranate pallet.
Makers and roles
Alessandro Tassoni (1565-1635) Salvini, G Le Roy, Jacques, 1739-, engraver Marillier, Clément Pierre, 1740-1808, illustrator Gravelot, Hubert François, 1699-1773, illustrator Durand, Pierre, active 18th century, publisher Prault, Laurent François, 1712-1780, publisher Lodovico Antonio Muratori (1672-1750) Perrault, Pierre, 1611-ca. 1680