Torquato Tasso - La Gerusalemme Liberata - 1764

18th-century edition (1764) in two complete volumes of the famous work "Jerusalem Delivered" by Torquato Tasso, printed outside Italy (Nîmes and Avignon) entirely in Italian.
"Opera arricchita dalle osservazioni storiche e critiche di Niccolò Cianculo e Scipio Gentili, contenente in appendice le stanze intere rifiutate dall'autore." -> "Work enriched with the historical and critical observations of Niccolò Cianculo and Scipio Gentili, containing in the appendix the entire stanzas rejected by the author."

Total pages: 847 (Volume I + Volume II)
Dimensions: pocket edition in twelfth size (12°)
Illustrations: Frontispiece with a copper-engraved portrait of Torquato Tasso by C. Nolli from a design by Cremona. Ornaments and wood-engraved initials at the beginning of each canto.
Binding: Full leather, eighteenth-century, with 5 raised bands on the spine, dark labels and titles impressed in gold. Page edges wholly tinted brick-red of the period.
Conditions: Solid copy. Internal text in excellent preservation, period binding well bound with widespread abrasions to the boards, sharp corners partially worn and small losses of leather at the upper and lower cuffs of the spines. On the flyleaves are present fascinating period manuscript ownership notes in ink dated 1779.