La Gierusalemme di Torquato Tasso. Con gli Argomenti del Sig. Gio: Vincenzo Imperiale figurata da Bernardo Castello.
Torquato Tasso (1544-1595)
Category
Books
Date
1604
Materials
Place of origin
Genoa
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3222506
Summary
Bibliographic description
[24], 572, [4] p. : ill. ; 12mo. Running number: 7510. Imperfect: wanting final two leaves. Provenance: manuscript code on front inside front pastedown (loose). Manuscript inscriptions on title page: one in pencil at head, illegible, and at foot in ink "Brooke". Date[?] in pencil on verso of title page: "1684". Binding: seventeenth-century full dark red or burgundy gold-tooled goatskin; edges of covers worn and missing in places; sewn on five cords; gold-tooled panel design of single and double fillets, the inner panel with cornerpiece stamps; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spine, head missing, tail damaged. Gilt textblock edges. Wide comb pattern marbled pastedowns.
Makers and roles
Torquato Tasso (1544-1595), author Gian Vincenzo Imperiale (1582-1648), author Bernardo Castello (1557-1629), photographer Camillo Cungi (d.c.1649), engraver (printmaker)