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ARIOSTO, LODOVICO. Orlando Furioso. Subscribers' list and errata bound at end of Volume 4. 4 volumes. 8vo, approximately 250x160 mm, original boards, rebacked, portions of paper missing from rear cover of Volumes 1 and 2; varying marginal dampstaining throughout with traces of mold, later Italian owner's notes on Volume 1 front free endpaper; uncut, with the last 2 volumes largely unopened; 1/4 morocco folding cases. Birmingham: John Baskerville for P. and G. Molini, 1773
first baskerville edition, octavo issue, in original boards, bound without the plates. The only cancels are A8 and D2 in Volume 4, with the latter also present in the first state, torn for cancellation. Gaskell 48a (not having seen an uncut set). With the bookplates of the novelist and Baskerville biographer Ralph Straus.
