TASSO, Torquato (1544-1595). La Gerusalemme Liberata ... con le figure di Giambatista Piazzetta. Venice: Giambatista Albrizzi, 1745. 2° (438 x 310mm), half-title, 6pp. list of subscribers, title in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved frontispiece with medallion portrait of the author, engraved portrait of the dedicatee, the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, by F. Polanzani after G. Piazzetta, each of the 20 cantos opened by an engraved plate within a separately engraved border, 20 engraved cartouche headpieces containing the argument, 20 engraved tailpieces (5 full-page), 1 final plate (a double portrait of Piazzetta and Albrizzi), 22 engraved initials, all by Martin Schedl after Piazzetta, contemporary Italian vellum over pasteboard, the covers panelled in blind in a 16th-century style with arabesque cornerpieces and central stamp, flat spine divided into seven compartments by double fillets in blind, titled in gilt in the second compartment, the others with repeat decoration in blind of a simple large lozenge-shaped tool in blind (neat repairs to spine and upper cover). Provenance: Conte de Perrone (bookplate). A SUBSCRIBER'S COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE(?), OF THE MOST RENOWNED VENETIAN ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF THE 18TH CENTURY. Each of the introductory plates to the cantos has a separate engraved border, and is captioned with the names and arms of its sponsor; in the second edition, the names were replaced with verses from the poem. According to a note in this copy, the first issue can be recognised by the use of two different borders around the plates (used alternately) - in the later issue only one design was used. Brunet V, 666; Cohen-de Ricci 978; Gamba p.285; Graesse VI/2, 33; Lanckoronska 240; Morazzoni p. 256; Sander III. 1887.