Orlando furioso in English heroical verse : Ariosto, Lodovico, 1474-1533 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive (original) (raw)

Harington's translation first published London, 1591, by Richard Field. See ESTC

Engraved t.p. with architectural border and ports. of author and translator. The full-page engravings preceding each book are copied from those by Girolamo Porro for de Franceschi's Venice ed. of 1584; see ESTC. Head- and tail-pieces, initials

"The life of Ariosto briefly and compendiously gathered out of sundrie Italian writers"--P. [414]-423

"The most elegant and wittie epigrams of Sir Iohn Harington, knight, digested into foure bookes" has special t.p. with imprint: London, Printed by George Miller, MDCXXXIII [1633]. It is unpaged but signed continuously

Signatures: [paragraph]⁸ A-P⁶ Q⁴ R-2Q⁶ 2R⁸

Includes index

ESTC (RLIN)

STC

Binding: old mottled calfskin (repairs). Gilt tooled along margins of boards and with central lozenges built up from small tools. Gilt rolls on edges of boards. Spine gilt tooled, author & title in gilt on red label. Page edges red