Mar 07, 2019 - Sale 2501

Sale 2501 - Lot 7

Price Realized: $ 1,430
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
ARIOSTO, LODOVICO. Orlando Furioso In English Heroicall Verse. English translation by John Harrington. [18], 423, [9]; [45] pages, including engraved title and 46 full-page engravings after Girolamo Porro. Folio, 267x185 mm, modern crude leather; marginal dampstaining at beginning and end, scattered stains elsewhere, occasional soiling, title soiled, trimmed and chipped along fore edge, few cellophane tape repairs including conspicuous one through text on G5, lower outer corner torn off V5 with substantial text loss. Signature of Henry Crispe on title; armorial bookplates of William Lee Esq. of Hartwell and descendants. London: G. Miller for J. Parker, 1634

Additional Details

Third edition of Harrington's 1591 translation, the first into English. STC 748.