Orlando furioso
Subtitle: in English heroical verse, by Iohn Haringto[n]
Contributors: Harington, John, Sir, 1560-1612, translator; Cockson, Thomas, engraver; Porro, Girolamo, 1520-1604, artist; Field, Richard, -1624, printer; Knapp, Arthur Mason, 1839-1898, autographer
Publisher: By Richard Field dwelling in the Black-friers by Ludgate
Published: 1591
Place of publication: Imprinted at London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 423
Other titles: Orlando fvrioso
Work titles: Orlando furioso
Notes: Imprint from colophon.

The title page is engraved and signed: Tho: Coxonus sculp.

The plates are English copies of originals by Girolamo Porro.

Includes index.

For details on this edition see "Studies in bibliography" 36 (1983), p. 137-68.

Signatures: ℗œ́ı A-Ṕœ Q́þ R-2Ńœ 2Óþ.

Engraved title page; head- and tailpieces; initials.

Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, 447

English short title catalogue, S106637

Cataloged 20160114 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in gray buckram (April, 2017). Bookplate of the BPL Phillips Fund, dated March 25, 1859, on the front pastedown. Leaves S2, V1, and V4 wanting; in each case, the leaf immediately following is signed in pencil by Arthur Mason Knapp. Colophon leaf mutilated, with losses to imprint statement. Early manuscript correction on 2D4 verso.