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La Gerusalemme liberata di Torquato Tasso. : Stampata d'ordine di Monsieur.
- Title
- La Gerusalemme liberata di Torquato Tasso. : Stampata d'ordine di Monsieur.
- Author
- Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595.
- Publication
- Parigi : Presso Franc. Ambr. Didot, 1784[-88?]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | By appointment only | Spencer Coll. French 1784 | Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308 |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 2 v. plates.; 31cm. (4̕.)
- Subjects
- Note
- This copy contains the illustrations only (41 full page engravings by Tilliard and others after Charles Nicolas Cochin), without the text.
- Brunet, V, 667 and suppl., II, 730. Cohen-DeRicci, col. 976-977. Grésy, Hilaire. Catalogue. Paris, 1869. no. 6. Portalis: Dessinateurs, I, 125. Portalis and Béraldi, I, 543.
- Presumably issued in 4 parts.
- Accompanied by Cochin's 41 original drawings, 40 additional drawings which were never engraved (on each of which a stanza of the text has been printed between the vignette and the fleuron), and an original title-page drawing dated 1790 and lettered: La Gerusalemme liberata... Raccolta de' disegni originali. All the drawings are signed.
- With description of the drawings, in French, 13 l. of ms. (presumably in the hand of Cochin) laid in.
- Self-portrait of Cochin engraved by J. Daullé, 1754, and portrait of Louis XVIII engraved by Tre Richomme, bound in.
- Prospectus [1783?] 4 l., and "Avis" announcing a delay in the publication of the first part, 2 l., bound in.
- With leather label of L. Double, label and ms. note of Ricardo Hérédia, bookplate of Hilaire Grésy and label of R[obert] S[chuhmann]
- Binding, by Lortic, of orange morroco, gilt; double with green morocco, gilt, with Grésy's initials.
- With (note)
- With letter dated 29 August 1785 laid in, which Cochin's patron, later Louis XVIII, accepts the proffered drawings (to be delivered following the engraving of the plates), and conters a pension on the artist. The letter is endorsed: Approuvé Louis Stanislas Xavier.
- Call Number
- Spencer Coll. French 1784
- OCLC
- 131730002
- Author
- Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595.
- Title
- La Gerusalemme liberata di Torquato Tasso. : Stampata d'ordine di Monsieur.
- Imprint
- Parigi : Presso Franc. Ambr. Didot, 1784[-88?]
- With:
- With letter dated 29 August 1785 laid in, which Cochin's patron, later Louis XVIII, accepts the proffered drawings (to be delivered following the engraving of the plates), and conters a pension on the artist. The letter is endorsed: Approuvé Louis Stanislas Xavier.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Cochin, Charles Nicolas, 1715-1790, ill.Tilliard, Jean Baptiste, engraver.
- Research Call Number
- Spencer Coll. French 1784