TASSE (Torquato Tasso, known as the)]. BAOUR-LORMIAN (Louis - Lot 132

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TASSE (Torquato Tasso, known as the)]. BAOUR-LORMIAN (Louis - Lot 132
TASSE (Torquato Tasso, known as the)]. BAOUR-LORMIAN (Louis Pierre Marie François). La Jérusalem délivrée, in French verse. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'Aîné, l'an IVe - 1796. 2 volumes in one in-4° (210 x 288 mm), red morocco, triple gilt fillet framing the boards, fleuron at the corners, monogram "p. l." crowned in the centre of the first, smooth spine decorated half in the grotesque style, half with the motif of a bunch of grapes, gilt edges (old binding). Reunion of the only plates of this work composed of two titles and a frontispiece followed by 38 other plates (out of 40), engraved by SAINT-AUBIN after COCHIN, DAMBRUN, TILLIARD, etc. Copy including a second state of the frontispiece on strong paper and before the letter and two of the plates also before the letter (those of chants V & XIX). Copy repacked in a mid 18th century binding with later monogram; foot cover slightly rubbed; first hinge loose; slight foxing and small amount of spotting; two plates lacking (in songs XVIII & XIX). Cohen, 977-978.
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