Lot 38
ARIOSTO, LODOVICO
ORLANDO FURIOSO IN ENGLISH BY SIR JOHN HARINGTON
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 31 January 2019 at 11:00 GMT
£2,500
Description
Now thirdly revised and amended with the addition of the author's epigrams. London: G. Miller for J. Parker, 1634. 3rd edition, folio, engraved title page with vignette portraits of Ariosto and Harington, 46 engraved plates, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, original spine retained, light paper discolouration throughout, wormhole in lower margin of the first few leaves (to A2), with the book plates of John and Michael Bury at the end
Footnote
Note: ESTC S106834. In this edition, the title page is re-engraved and the plates, originally by Girolamo Porro in the Venetian edition of 1584, are retouched.