Orlando Furioso, Translated and with Notes by John Hoole
- 1783
1783. London: C, Bathurst, T. Payne and others, 1783.
5 vols, 8vo, [8], cxxxi, 335; [4], 407: [4], 427; [4], 438; [4], (16, subscribers and errata), 322, vi, (55, errata and index) pp., with a frontispiece also in each volume and 3 further plates in The Life of Ariosto following the preface in vol. 1. Original calf, with moderate wear; carefully restored. Spines with red labels and raised bands, all somewhat worn, and the label to vol. 5 is missing. Internally a clean set, with endpapers a trifle browned, page edges slightly dusty and just a few occasional marks throughout the set. Plates are clean; the Blake plate is the frontispiece to vol. 3. Bookplate of Sir Charles Dance in each volume.
ß First edition. Blake s engraving is after a drawing by Stothard depicting the furious Orlando brandishing a huge tree. Essick notes: In a letter... to William Hayley, Blake states that he is absorbed in the study of several poets including Ariosto. Bentley, BB, 417A. Essick, CBI, XII.
5 vols, 8vo, [8], cxxxi, 335; [4], 407: [4], 427; [4], 438; [4], (16, subscribers and errata), 322, vi, (55, errata and index) pp., with a frontispiece also in each volume and 3 further plates in The Life of Ariosto following the preface in vol. 1. Original calf, with moderate wear; carefully restored. Spines with red labels and raised bands, all somewhat worn, and the label to vol. 5 is missing. Internally a clean set, with endpapers a trifle browned, page edges slightly dusty and just a few occasional marks throughout the set. Plates are clean; the Blake plate is the frontispiece to vol. 3. Bookplate of Sir Charles Dance in each volume.
ß First edition. Blake s engraving is after a drawing by Stothard depicting the furious Orlando brandishing a huge tree. Essick notes: In a letter... to William Hayley, Blake states that he is absorbed in the study of several poets including Ariosto. Bentley, BB, 417A. Essick, CBI, XII.
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Title
Orlando Furioso, Translated and with Notes by John Hoole
Author
Ariosto, Lodovico. Blake, William
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Date
1783