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TASSO, Torquato (1544-1595). La Gerusalemme Liberata... con le figure di Giambatista Piazzetta. Venice: Giambatista Albrizzi, 1745.
2 (456 x 301mm). Letterpress half-title, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved frontispiece incorporating author's portrait, engraved portrait of the dedicatee, a young Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, after Giambatista Piazzetta by Felix Polanzani, each of the 20 cantos opened by a full-page engraving within separately engraved border, elaborate engraved headpieces and vignette tailpieces, 5 of which are full-page, full-page double portrait of Piazzetta and Albrizzi as tailpiece at the end, and engraved initials opening the dedication, preface, and each canto, all engraved after Piazzetta by Martin Schedl. (Slight marginal worming in first leaves touching one plate, marginal tear in penultimate leaf, marginal dampstain in final leaf.) Contemporary Italian mottled calf elaborately tooled in gilt, sides with outermost strapwork border, a floral roll forming an inner shaped compartment, corner decoration of small tools, central empty armorial within large rococo block, gilt spine, gilt edges, speckled endpapers, apparently a 'publisher's binding' (rubbed, worn at extremities, rebacked with original backstrip preserved in compartments, split in front hinge). Provenance: Demosia Library (stamp and cancellation).
THE MOST IMPORTANT VENETIAN ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF THE 18TH-CENTURY. It is the first of Albrizzi's lavishly illustrated editions of the Gerusalemme Liberata, with each plate captioned with the name and arms of its sponsor: in the second edition, the names were replaced with verses from the poem. The binding closely resembles that on a copy formerly belonging to Ferdinand Harrach, a subscriber (sold Christie's, 25 June 1997, lot 200), sharing many of the same tools. Their similarity suggests that the two, both with empty armorial shields, may belong to a number of copies bound on speculation by the publisher for potential subscribers. Gamba p.285; Morazzoni p.256; Cohen-de Ricci 978.
2 (456 x 301mm). Letterpress half-title, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved frontispiece incorporating author's portrait, engraved portrait of the dedicatee, a young Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, after Giambatista Piazzetta by Felix Polanzani, each of the 20 cantos opened by a full-page engraving within separately engraved border, elaborate engraved headpieces and vignette tailpieces, 5 of which are full-page, full-page double portrait of Piazzetta and Albrizzi as tailpiece at the end, and engraved initials opening the dedication, preface, and each canto, all engraved after Piazzetta by Martin Schedl. (Slight marginal worming in first leaves touching one plate, marginal tear in penultimate leaf, marginal dampstain in final leaf.) Contemporary Italian mottled calf elaborately tooled in gilt, sides with outermost strapwork border, a floral roll forming an inner shaped compartment, corner decoration of small tools, central empty armorial within large rococo block, gilt spine, gilt edges, speckled endpapers, apparently a 'publisher's binding' (rubbed, worn at extremities, rebacked with original backstrip preserved in compartments, split in front hinge). Provenance: Demosia Library (stamp and cancellation).
THE MOST IMPORTANT VENETIAN ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF THE 18TH-CENTURY. It is the first of Albrizzi's lavishly illustrated editions of the Gerusalemme Liberata, with each plate captioned with the name and arms of its sponsor: in the second edition, the names were replaced with verses from the poem. The binding closely resembles that on a copy formerly belonging to Ferdinand Harrach, a subscriber (sold Christie's, 25 June 1997, lot 200), sharing many of the same tools. Their similarity suggests that the two, both with empty armorial shields, may belong to a number of copies bound on speculation by the publisher for potential subscribers. Gamba p.285; Morazzoni p.256; Cohen-de Ricci 978.