ARIOSTO, Lodovico (1474-1533).  Orlando Furioso, Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1773. 4 vols, 8° (233 x 145mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait of Ariosto by Fiquet after Eisen, 46 other engravings by Bartolozzi, de Longueil, de Ghendt and others after Cipriani, Moreau le jeaune, Eisen, Cochin, Monnet and Griuze, 26 page list of subscribers bound before the Vita, 2 pages of errata bound in vol. IV (lacking errata leaves in vol. I, occasional spotting and browning, some offsetting from plates). Contemporary polished tree calf, gilt border and turn-ins, spines gilt with red and green leather lettering pieces, marbled endpapers (slightly rubbed at hinges). Provenance: Michael Tomkinson, Franche Hall, Worcestershire (bookplate) -- Alfred de Curzon (bookplate). FINE BINDING. Brunet I, 438; Cohen de Ricci 95; Gaskell 48(a).
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ARIOSTO, Lodovico (1474-1533). Orlando Furioso, Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1773. 4 vols, 8° (233 x 145mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait of Ariosto by Fiquet after Eisen, 46 other engravings by Bartolozzi, de Longueil, de Ghendt and others after Cipriani, Moreau le jeaune, Eisen, Cochin, Monnet and Griuze, 26 page list of subscribers bound before the Vita, 2 pages of errata bound in vol. IV (lacking errata leaves in vol. I, occasional spotting and browning, some offsetting from plates). Contemporary polished tree calf, gilt border and turn-ins, spines gilt with red and green leather lettering pieces, marbled endpapers (slightly rubbed at hinges). Provenance: Michael Tomkinson, Franche Hall, Worcestershire (bookplate) -- Alfred de Curzon (bookplate). FINE BINDING. Brunet I, 438; Cohen de Ricci 95; Gaskell 48(a).

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ARIOSTO, Lodovico (1474-1533). Orlando Furioso, Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1773. 4 vols, 8° (233 x 145mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait of Ariosto by Fiquet after Eisen, 46 other engravings by Bartolozzi, de Longueil, de Ghendt and others after Cipriani, Moreau le jeaune, Eisen, Cochin, Monnet and Griuze, 26 page list of subscribers bound before the Vita, 2 pages of errata bound in vol. IV (lacking errata leaves in vol. I, occasional spotting and browning, some offsetting from plates). Contemporary polished tree calf, gilt border and turn-ins, spines gilt with red and green leather lettering pieces, marbled endpapers (slightly rubbed at hinges). Provenance: Michael Tomkinson, Franche Hall, Worcestershire (bookplate) -- Alfred de Curzon (bookplate). FINE BINDING. Brunet I, 438; Cohen de Ricci 95; Gaskell 48(a).

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