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Ariosto, Ludovico

Orlando Furioso by M. Lodovico Ariosto volume 1. [-4.], 1772

Estimate

€ 1.500 - 2.000

Sold

€ 1.920

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Venice, near Antonio Zatta, 1772. In 4°. 4 vols. with 58 splendid full-page copperplate engravings, for a total of 62 plates, if the engraved title pages are added. Engravings by Giuliano Zuliani, Tommaso Baratti, Ferdinando Fambrini, Giacomo Malosso and others, on subjects by Pietro Antonio Novelli, etc., 51 pictures of the topics (46 songs + 5 revised songs) with text also engraved, 51 finely historiated, 51 between finials and culs-de-lampe, coeval binding in half brown calfskin and spotted cardboard, yellow edges. perfect specimen.

Specialist Notes

Superbly illustrated work, considered one of the most beautiful of eighteenth-century Venice, synonymous with refined and elegant typographic art. 
Agnelli-Ravegnani I, p. 202-204.

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