La Gerusalemme [- liberata]. Figurata da Bernardo Castello [...] [- Con le annotationi di Scipion Gentili, e di Giulio Guastavini, et li argomenti di Oratio Ariosti [...]].

2 pts in 1 vol., sm. folio: engr. title-[14 incl. another engr. title]-255-[1 bl.], 71-[1]-36-[4] pp. (cut short, soiled, sl. dampstaining, some tears strengthened to prelims).

Contemp. calf, gilt coat of arms on the double gilt-ruled boards, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands, spr. edges (rubbed, esp. spine and joints, front joint partly split).

Illustrated after Bernardo Castello by Agostino Caracci and Giacomo Franco with 2 engr. titles in architectural frames (one with the portrait of Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, dedicatee of the work; the other with Tasso's portrait above a view of Genoa's harbour) and with 20 full-page wood-engr. ill. With the "argomento" for each canto within ornamented frames, orn. initials, head- and tailpieces. Annotated edition by Scipione Gentili, Giulio Guastavini and Orazio Ariosti. The first edition with the same commentaries was published in 1590 but with other illustrations compared to this edition. With the rejected verses by the author following the poem. Text in 2 col.
Ref. Gamba 948. - STC Italian p. 893.
Prov. Unidentified crowned gilt supralibros with 5 crescents, close to the coat of arms of the Azagra family from Aragon; ref. Rietstap pl. XCVII. - Typed letter dated 1922 from A. De Ridder (1865-1933), "Directeur général du Ministère des Affaires étrangères", to the Doctor Tricot-Royer about the identification of the supralibros.