ARIOSTO (LUDOVICO)
Orlando Furioso in English. Heroicall Verse, by John Harringto[n], hand-coloured title within architectural border engraved and signed by Thomas Cockson, incorporating a portrait medallion of the translator (printed label "Esquire" pasted beneath the translator's name, with early ink note "Verbum Sapienti" in lower margin), printed in 2 columns, ruled in red with good wide margins, 45 full-page engraved illustrations hand-coloured and heightened with gold (of 46, lacking leaf A1), printer's device on colophon, decorative head- and tailpieces, and decorative initials throughout (all hand-coloured), title neatly repaired at gutter margin, leaf A2 with long neat vertical tear (touching several letters of side-note) repaired with old paper tabs, 9 leaves with lower margin strengthened with old paper labels, early reversed calf, rebacked preserving most of the original spine, gilt morocco lettering label on spine [ESTC S106637; Pforzheimer 447], folio (295 x 210mm.), [colophon: Richard Field, 1591]