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TASSO, TORQUATO. La Gerusalemme Liberata. 2 vols. 1784
TASSO, TORQUATO. La Gerusalemme Liberata. Engraved frontispiece and 40 plates after Charles-Nicolas Cochin. Half-titles. 2 volumes. 4to, 310x230 mm, near-contemporary red straight-grain morocco elegantly gilt by Bozerian, Greek-key border on covers, spines in 6 compartments, lettered in 2 with dense floral tooling in the rest, blue silk doublures and endleaves, bottom of spines worn, Volume 2 front joint starting at top; mostly marginal foxing on plates. Bookplates of the Bibliothèque du Château de Montmoyen and Estelle Doheny (sale, 2 February 1988, lot 984). Paris: Ambroise Didot l''Aîné, 1784
- Notes: first cochin edition, limited to 200 sets, "a collector''s book on the grand scale" (Ray). Brunet V, 667 ("très-belle édition"); Cohen-de Ricci 977; Gamba 948 note; Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book 11.
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