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TASSO, Torquato (1544-1595). La Gerusalemme liberata, con le figure di Giambatista Piazzetta. Venice: Giambattista Albrizzi, 1745
Large 2° (450 x 305 mm). Title in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved allegorical frontispiece, engraved portrait of the dedicatee, Empress Maria Theresa, by Felix Polanzani after Piazzetta; 20 plates with ornamental borders, 20 pictorial headpieces and 20 tailpieces (5 full-page), full-page double portrait of Piazzetta and Albrizzi, all engraved by M. Schedl after Piazzetta, engraved historiated initials.
CONTEMPORARY VENETIAN BINDING FOR CONSUL SMITH, gold-tooled vellum over pasteboard, triple fillets on sides, corner fleurons, large oval black morocco inlay in the centre with Smith's arms surrounded by floral and drawer-handle tools, compartments of spine with black morocco lettering piece and floral tool, red-sprinkled edges. Provenance: Joseph Smith (1682-1770, arms block, engraved armorial bookplate by Antonio Visentini), British consul at Venice, collector of several libraries (one purchased by George III and now in the British Library), patron of Venetian artists, art dealer; Thomas Philip Earl de Grey (armorial bookplate); Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell (bookplates, Osbert's by Rex Whistler, autograph note by Osbert Sitwell on the book and its provenance); John Saks (bookplate, sold in these rooms 10th June 1981 lot 238)
FINE SUBSCRIBER'S COPY OF THE MOST IMPORTANT VENETIAN ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. All plates and the portrait of the Empress are in FIRST STATE; the copy mostly conforms to Radaeli's edition B, but has features of his edition A as well (F. Radaeli, Alcune Note al Tasso del Piazzetta, 1989, notes 4 and 5). "Albrizzi's patronage of Piazzetta reached its climax in the most famous of all Venetian eighteenth-century books - the Gerusalemme Liberata ... For this book Piazzetta produced some seventy drawings" (Haskell, Painters and Patrons p. 335-336). Morazzoni 256; Lanckoronska 240.
Large 2° (450 x 305 mm). Title in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved allegorical frontispiece, engraved portrait of the dedicatee, Empress Maria Theresa, by Felix Polanzani after Piazzetta; 20 plates with ornamental borders, 20 pictorial headpieces and 20 tailpieces (5 full-page), full-page double portrait of Piazzetta and Albrizzi, all engraved by M. Schedl after Piazzetta, engraved historiated initials.
CONTEMPORARY VENETIAN BINDING FOR CONSUL SMITH, gold-tooled vellum over pasteboard, triple fillets on sides, corner fleurons, large oval black morocco inlay in the centre with Smith's arms surrounded by floral and drawer-handle tools, compartments of spine with black morocco lettering piece and floral tool, red-sprinkled edges. Provenance: Joseph Smith (1682-1770, arms block, engraved armorial bookplate by Antonio Visentini), British consul at Venice, collector of several libraries (one purchased by George III and now in the British Library), patron of Venetian artists, art dealer; Thomas Philip Earl de Grey (armorial bookplate); Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell (bookplates, Osbert's by Rex Whistler, autograph note by Osbert Sitwell on the book and its provenance); John Saks (bookplate, sold in these rooms 10th June 1981 lot 238)
FINE SUBSCRIBER'S COPY OF THE MOST IMPORTANT VENETIAN ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. All plates and the portrait of the Empress are in FIRST STATE; the copy mostly conforms to Radaeli's edition B, but has features of his edition A as well (F. Radaeli, Alcune Note al Tasso del Piazzetta, 1989, notes 4 and 5). "Albrizzi's patronage of Piazzetta reached its climax in the most famous of all Venetian eighteenth-century books - the Gerusalemme Liberata ... For this book Piazzetta produced some seventy drawings" (Haskell, Painters and Patrons p. 335-336). Morazzoni 256; Lanckoronska 240.