Il Goffredo overo Gerusalemme liberata [...]. Et con gli argomenti del Sig. Horatio Ariosti, & di bellissime figure adornato.

Venice, for B. Giunti & G. B. Ciotti, 1609

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24mo: [36, engr. title incl.]-502 pp. (occ. foxing, occ. text pp. partly erased).

Contemp. vellum, flat spine with ink titled label, 19th-c. marbled pastedown.

Very rare pocket edition of the "Gerusalemme liberata". Illustrated with 19 woodcuts in-text; title within architectural frame. Edited by Orazio Ariosti (1555-1593), Canon at Ferrara, nephew of Ludovico Ariosto and Tasso's friend.
Ref. Not in Gamba (other ed.), STC Italian (id.).