[Rarebooks] FS: ORLANDO FURIOSO, 1603, with 51 full-page woodcuts and other illustrations

[Charles Agvent]

ARIOSTO, Lodovico. ORLANDO FURIOSO and I CINQUE CANTI. Venice: F. 
Valgrisi and N. Moretti, 1603. Early Printing. Large octavo (7" x 10") 
bound in early full vellum, [16] 654 [32] pages. The complete and 
corrected ORLANDO FURIOSO, with Ruscelli's dedication to the Duke of 
Ferrara dated 1556 and an account of the life of Ariosto by Battista 
Pigna. Illustrated with an engraved title page, 51 full-page woodcuts, 
ornamental headpieces, and initial letters. The woodcuts, within 
decorative borders, are after the designs of Dossa Dossi, the Ferrarese 
painter and are printed from the blocks of the first Valgrisi quarto 
editon of 1556. Some of the impressions are weak, but most are quite 
presentable. Trimmed at the top close to the text and plate lines, 
affecting one line of text in the dedication; other margins quite 
adequate. Vellum soiled. Very Good or better. 		$1,500.00

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