Torquato Tasso - Il Goffredo ovvero La Gerusalemme Liberata - 1771

"The Goffredo or The Jerusalem Delivered", Venice, Girolamo Dorigoni, 1771. In 16°, pp. 480 n. With several engravings hors-texte. Illustrated by woodcuts depicting scenes of arms, battles and key episodes of the heroic poem. The text includes the "Arguments to each Canto by an uncertain author" and is enriched in an appendix with compositions in memory of Tasso, including texts by Giovan Battista Marino and Antonio Bruni.

Era-bound in full flexible parchment with a leather label and gilded decorations on the spine. On the front board there is a suggestive period handwriting ownership note: "Lady Hume 1787".