Description
Luxurious edition illustrated with 20 plates engraved after Le Barbier by Bovinet, Dambrun, Delignon, Langlois, Dupréel, de Ghendt, Delvaux, Romanet and Trière, and a frontispiece engraved by Delvaux after Chasselat.
Translated from the Italian by Le Brun, with a life of Tasso by Suard. The work was republished in 1813.
BEAUTIFUL CONTEMPORARY BINDING IN RICHLY DECORATED RED MOROCCO.
Super bookplate on upper flyleaf, Mr. Colinau (unidentified),
Vicar VII, 754-55
Paris,Masson and Besson,1803.2in-8, Bound,131 x 207 mm,[1] pl. - [1] f. - lxxxvi pp. - [1] f. - 352 pp. - 10] plates ; 354 pp. - 10] pl.
Bound in contemporary red long-grained morocco, smooth spine decorated, gilt title, framed with gold roulettes and fillets on the boards, inner roulette, roulette on the edges, gilt edges, bookmark, green silk endpapers. Spine sunned. Some brown spots.
