Dec 06, 2001 - Sale 1917

Sale 1917 - Lot 322

Price Realized: $ 920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
TASSO, TORQUATO. La Gerusalemme Liberata.<> Engraved frontispieces, titles, and 67 plates after Gravelot, of which 35 are smaller portraits or vignettes. Half-titles. 2 volumes. 4to, 265x200 mm, contemporary mottled calf gilt, top of spines chipped, joints cracked or starting, cover corners worn through; some plates lightly toned, otherwise a clean, wide-margined set.<> Paris: Bossange, Masson, & Besson, 1792

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Some of the plates, including the Volume 2 frontispiece and title, are printed on pale blue paper. Gamba 948 note; Cohen-de Ricci 974 and Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book 22 both cite the 1771 edition.<