ARIOSTO, LUDOVICO. Orlando Furioso... with Notes by John Hoole. London, 1799. Profusion of engraved plates. 5 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tree calf, all covers with central design of Trinity College, Dublin, surrounded by green colored calf within oval floral border and framed by narrow gilt-tooled border of starts and circles, spine elaborately gilt, spine in five compartments, gilt-lettered in two, a repeated decorative floral panel in the rest, each framed by floral rules and half-moons in each corner of four compartments, presumably by the Irish binder WILLIAM MACKENZIE, joints of vol. I starting, others with light rubbing, a few covers and edges slightly rubbed; some light browning. (5)

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ARIOSTO, LUDOVICO. Orlando Furioso... with Notes by John Hoole. London, 1799. Profusion of engraved plates. 5 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tree calf, all covers with central design of Trinity College, Dublin, surrounded by green colored calf within oval floral border and framed by narrow gilt-tooled border of starts and circles, spine elaborately gilt, spine in five compartments, gilt-lettered in two, a repeated decorative floral panel in the rest, each framed by floral rules and half-moons in each corner of four compartments, presumably by the Irish binder WILLIAM MACKENZIE, joints of vol. I starting, others with light rubbing, a few covers and edges slightly rubbed; some light browning. (5)
Provenance
Jacobo Daby, Trinity Prize Label (dated 1800), in each volume.

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