Lodovico; Pietro MOLINI ( editor ). Orlando furioso

by ARIOSTO

£20,000 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

Queen Charlotte's Orlando furioso ARIOSTO, Lodovico; Pietro MOLINI ( editor ). Orlando furioso Birmingham: John Baskerville for P[ietro] and G[iovanni Claudio] Molini . 1773. Four vols, 4to. Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, boards filleted in gilt, spine gilt-ruled in compartments and lettered directly in gilt, raised bands, edges gilt, board-edges with a single gilt fillet, turn-ins roll-tooled in gilt, marbled endpapers, green silk place-markers; I: pp. [vi], lviii, 362, with copper-engraved portrait frontispiece by Etienne Fiquet after Charles Eisen, and a further 12 copper-engraved plates; II: pp. [ii], 450, with 11 copper-engraved plates; III: pp. [ii], 446, with 12 copper-engraved plates; IV: pp. [ii], 446, [26 (list of subscribers)], with 11 copper-engraved plates, issued without errata leaf 5*2 as usual; light, variable foxing and browning, slight offset from plates, vol. II with marginal paperflaw to H2; generally a very good, crisp set in a well-preserved and unrestored binding, with all the cancels called for by Gaskell; nineteenth-century ink inscriptions to vol. I frontispiece verso in two hands, ‘coll: perf: H. Drury. Harrow.’, and ‘LARGE PAPER. C. 153.3. from Queen Charlotte’s Collection, where it was bought 1819. bound by Roger Payne’ ( see below ); recent bookseller’s tickets to front pastedowns. The dedication copy of John Baskerville’s Orlando furioso , a handsomely bound large-paper copy from the library of Queen Charlotte, later in the possessio

• Binding: Hardcover

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