[Rarebooks] FS: Fairfax trans. of Tasso.

[Kaaterskill Books]

We offer for Sale:

Tasso, Torquato; Fairfax, Edward; Knight, Charles, ed. GODFREY OF 
BULLOIGNE; OR, THE RECOVERY OF JERUSALEM: DONE INTO ENGLISH HEROICAL 
VERSE, FROM THE ITALIAN OF TASSO...THE 7TH ED., REPRINTED FROM THE 
ORIGINAL FOLIO OF 1600. TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED, A GLOSSARY, AND THE 
LIVES OF TASSO AND FAIRFAX. BY THE EDITOR. IN TWO VOLUMES. London: 
Charles Knight & Co., 1844. 300 pp.; 277 pp. + [4]. Illus. frontis 
and four woodcuts. 12mo. Three quarter calf over marble paper-covered 
boards, morocco spine labels, raised bands, gilt decorated 
compartments, all edges marbled, red marbled endpapers. 

The wonderful Fairfax translation of Tasso's La Gerusalemme Liberata 
(1575). Signed by, and from the library of, Samuel H. Turner 
(1790-1861) minister and professor of Hebrew language and literature 
in Columbia College.

Near fine copies with some minor rubbing to extremities; tight, 
crisp, clean; a handsome set.  [25787] $100

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