Book/Printed Material Orlando furioso : in English heroical verse

Title

• Orlando furioso : in English heroical verse

Other Title

• Orlando fvrioso

Names

• Ariosto, Lodovico, 1474-1533, author.
• Harington, John, Sir, 1560-1612, translator.
• Field, Richard, -1624, printer.
• Cockson, Thomas, engraver.
• Porro, Girolamo, 1520-1604, illustrator.
• Harington, John, Sir, 1560-1612, signer.
• Coningsby, Thomas, 1550-1625, former owner.
• Holford, George Lindsay, 1860-1926, former owner.
• Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
• Hopetoun House (South Queensferry, Scotland), former owner.

Created / Published

• Imprinted at London : By Richard Field, dwelling in the Blackfriers by Ludgate, 1591.

Headings

• -  England--London

Genre

• Authors' presentation copies (Provenance)

Notes

• -  Engraved title page signed Tho. Coxonus, sculp.
• -  Imprint from colophon.
• -  First English-language edition.
• -  "Most copies are ordinary folio; of the others some are large-paper folio ... and some have been printed on thick 4[to] paper ... Some of the special-paper copies are hand-coloured": Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), v. 1, p. 39.
• -  Signatures: [par.]⁸ A-P⁶ Q⁴ R-2N⁶ 2O⁴.
• -  Numerous errors in paging.
• -  The plates are English copies of originals by Girolamo Porro. Cf. ESTC.
• -  Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 746
• -  Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (1977), 1254
• -  Library of Congress. Rosenwald Collection (1954), 721
• -  English Short Title Catalogue, S106637
• -  "The life of Ariosto briefly and compendiously gathered out of sundrie Italian writers by Iohn Harington": p. 114 [i.e. 414]-423.
• -  Includes index.
• -  Errata: p. [9] at end.
• -  LC copy is a 4to and without hand-coloring; in original calf binding with gold tooled corner and center pieces.
• -  LC copy: Harington's presentation copy to Sir Thomas Coningsby. With inscriptions: Thomas Coningsby, Henry Jeffreyes, William Jeffreyes and a later Henry Jeffreyes, William Jeffereys and a later Henry Jeffreyes on flyleaf, title page and 2nd leaf. Later in collection of Sir George Holford.
• -  Copy 2 #ACQ 22-090 he04 2023-03-09
• -  LAC knj 2019-11-19 update (1 card)

Medium

• [18], 423, [11] p. : ill. (engravings) ; 29 cm (fol. or 4to)

Call Number/Physical Location

• PQ4582.E5 A35 1591
• PQ4582.E5 A35 1591 Copy 2 Measures 28 cm. With a mounted ms label on the title page, adding "Esquire" after Harington's name. Hand-colored (with gilt) 4to copy, text with red bounding lines. Manuscript presentation slip mounted on p. [2] of cover, to the Library at Hopetoun House from Dr. Martin, Monimail [Tower?],15th Augst. 1822; armorial bookplate of Hopetoun; bookplate of AHA. Partially erased signature on title page (Montagu?); Marie [?] at top edge of p. 343.

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/Rosenwald.1254

Library of Congress Control Number

• 47043569

Online Format

• online text
• pdf
• image

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/47043569

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