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Tasso, Torquato (1544-1595) Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. Done into English Heroicall Verse, by Edward Fairefax Gent.
London: by Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[ohn] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, 1600.
Small folio, first edition of the complete English translation, one of three states, this copy with printer's slip pasted over the first stanza beginning with the line, "I sing the warre made in the Holy land"; and the stanza number: "1" printed directly above the space between the words "in" and "the" in the first line of the stanza; title page printed within ornament border; bound in full later calf boards (chipped, very dry, with leather flaking), rebacked; 9 1/4 x 6 in.
