BINDING -- Torquato TASSO (1544-95). Aminta, Favola Boscareccia, Leiden: Presso Giovanni Elsevier, 1656. 12° (126 x 70mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, head-pieces and initials (occasional light spotting). Finely-bound in late 18th- or early 19th-century crimson straight-grained morocco gilt in the Bozerian style, the covers with central coat-of-arms stamped in gilt, corners decorated with flowers and fleurons set against a semis ground, spine elaborately gilt in compartments, edges gilt and gauffered. Provenance: the coat-of-arms on the covers is that of GEORGE JOHN, SECOND EARL SPENCER, who, according to De Ricci, "was one of the greatest book collectors, not only in English history, but even in the history of the world ... [he had] the finest private collection of books in Europe." Willems 795.