La Gerusalemme di Torquato Tasso
By: figurata da Bernardo Castello
Contributors: Castello, Bernardo, 1557?-1629; Cungi, Camillo, d. ca. 1649; Gentili, Scipione, 1563-1616; Guastavini, Giulio, 16th cent; Ariosto, Orazio, 1555-1593
Publisher: Appresso Giuseppe Pauoni
Published: 1617
Place of publication: In Genoua
Language: ita
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Poetry; Crusades, First, 1096-1099
Other titles: Gervsalemme di Torqvato Tasso
Work titles: Gerusalemme liberata
Notes: Engraved t.p., followed by a 2nd with title: La Gerusalemme liberata di Torquato Tasso, con le annotationi di Scipion Gentili e di Giulio Guastavini, et li argomenti di Oratio Ariosti. Both t.p.'s includes ports. (Charles Emmanuel, Duke of Savoy; Tasso). Each of the 20 cantos is preceded by a full-page engraving by Camillo Cungi after Bernardo Castello, and by the argomento in woodcut border. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces, initials.

Signatures: [dagger]⁴ 2[daggers]⁴ A-Q⁸, ²A-D⁸ E⁴, ³A-B⁸ C⁴.

Binding: old calfskin. Spine and edges of boards tooled in gilt.

E.K. Waterhouse's property stamp on front free endpaper verso. Signed "Froullay" on t.p. verso.