[TASSO, TORQUATO]. Godfrey of Bulloign; or the Gierusalemme Liberata of Torquato Tasso, Abridged and Altered. Inscribed to Lady M*****. London: Printed for J. Dodsley, MDCC LXXIV [1774].
Reprint. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Small octavo (160 x 100 x 20 mm). Pp. (4), 219. English text. Bound in contemporary half leather. Smooth spine with gilt banding. Marbled paper-covered boards. Speckled page edges. Condition: GOOD. Binding tight and secure. Trivial rubbing to joints. Interior lightly toned. Previous owner details to front endpaper. Title plate missing front spine. A sound copy. Notes: Torquato Tasso (1544-1595), Italian vernacular poet ranking amongst Dante, Petrach and Ariosto in that nations literary canon. Gerusalemme Liberata (Parma, 1581) is an epic poem in twenty cantos and considered his greatest work. It takes Virgil for its model, the First Crusade for its theme, Godfrey of Bouillon for its hero and the capture of Jerusalem in 1099 as its climax. This copy represents an abridged edition, edited and translated into English. Scarce thus.
