29th Nov, 2023 10:00
Ariosto (Lodovico)
Orlando Furioso in English Heroical Verse, 2 parts in 1, translated by Sir John Harington, ‘The most elegant and wittie epigrams of Sir Iohn Harrington, Knight" has separate title page dated 1633; register is continuous, engraved title incorporating portraits of Ariosto and Harington, 46 full-page finely engraved illustrations, typographical border to the argument for each chapter, woodcut initials, double column, some mainly marginal staining, some offsetting, tear to Q4, slightly later mottled calf, later endpapers, a.e.r., spine gilt, rubbed, [STC (2nd ed.), 748; Pforzheimer 447], Folio, Printed by G. Miller for J. Parker, 1634.
***Third edition of Harington's 1591 translation, which was for a long time the only version in English of Ariosto’s work. The illustrations were copied from those in Girolamo Porro's edition of 1584 printed in Venice.
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