Roland furieux, : poëme héroïque, / de l'Arioste. Traduction nouvelle, par M. d'Ussieux.
Lodovico Ariosto (1474-1533)
Category
Books
Date
1775
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3124576.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 1 : ill. ; 4to. Bookseller's pencil note on front free endpaper verso: "fine copy. / 2 Vols / £12-10-0". Bookseller's pencil note on second front free endpaper (in a different hand): "2 vols. containing portrait of Ariosto / and 92 fine plates by Moreau, Cochin, / Cipriani, early impressions". Further erased pencil notes (illegible) at head of front free endpaper verso. Bookseller's pencil code on rear free endpaper: "2 vols K/Kn/- ooe." Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Late eighteenth-century full red morocco; triple gilt fillet (thin - thick - thin) to form an outer border on boards; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt tooled spine; lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Roland furieux' and 'Tom I'; double gilt fillet on board edges; gilt rolled turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Lodovico Ariosto (1474-1533), author Louis d'Ussieux (1744-1805), translator