Oct 13, 2022 - Sale 2617

Sale 2617 - Lot 143

Price Realized: $ 3,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
Ariosto, Ludovico (1474-1533)
Orlando Furioso in English Heroical Verse by S[i]r John Haringto[n] of Bathe, Knight.

London: by Richard Field for John Norton & Simon Waterson, 1607.



Second edition, folio, engraved title page by Thomas Coxon, illustrated with forty-six engraved plates; bound in full contemporary calf with large gilt-tooled lozenge on both boards, lacking ribbon ties; translated into English by Sir John Harington (1560-1612), with illustrations engraved in England after the original plates by Girolamo Porro; ex libris Charles Hervey Hoare, with armorial bookplate, 11 x 7 1/4 in.

STC 747; ESTC S106841.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.