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Milton’s Paradise lost.
1
st.
edition in 10. books
p. 4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 136, no. 19, as above.
MILTON,
John.
Paradise lost. A Poem in Ten Books. The Author John Milton.
London: Printed by
S. Simmons, and are to be sold by
T. Helder at the Angel in Little Brittain,
1669.
PR3560 .1669
First Edition. 4to. 178 leaves.
Lowndes III, 1558.
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. I, 465.
STC 2140-2143.
See the Catalogue of the Milton Tercentenary Celebration, Stoke Newtington, 1908.
Jefferson bought his copy from Samuel Henley in 1786. In his list to Henley, dated Mar. 3, 1785, he described it as “
Milton’s paradise lost, edn in 10. books. small 4
to.;
” in a later list of the same books, he added that it was the “
1
st. edn.
” The date is not given by him in his manuscript catalogue, nor is it in the Library of Congress catalogue of 1815. In the early Library of Congress catalogues which distinguish Jefferson’s
collection the date is given as 1669, which seems to prove that Jefferson’s copy was one of the later issues of the first
edition, with any one of the title-pages from the fifth to the eighth, all of which are dated 1669.
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La Gierusalemme liberata del Tasso.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 135, no. 40, as above, but reading
dal for
del.
TASSO,
Torquato.
La Gerusalemme Liberata di Torquato Tasso con le Figure di Giambatista Piazzetta alla sacra real Maestà di Maria Teresa d’Austria Regina d’Ungheria, e di Boemia, ec. In
Venezia,
mdccxlv
. Stampata da
Giambatista Albrizzi q. Girol. Con Privilegio dell’Eccellentissimo Senato. [1745.]
PQ4638 .C45
Large folio. 12 preliminary leaves (unnumbered), including a list of subscribers, 256 leaves, numbered in the lower margins
(4 errors in the numbering), no signatures, title printed in red and black, with an engraved vignette, engraved frontispiece
with a medallion portrait of Tasso, full-page engraved portrait of Maria Theresa of Austria, full-page engraving before each of the 20 Cantos, headpieces, initials
and culs-de-lampe, all after Piazzetta by Giovanni Marco Pitteri, with the exception of the portrait, which was engraved by Felix Polanzani.
Brunet V, 666.
Graesse VI, 33.
Torquato Tasso, 1544-1595, Italian poet. The first edition of his
Gerusalemme Liberata was printed in 1580.
Giambatista Piazzetta, 1682-1754, Italian artist, was a pupil of Molinari. In 1750 he became the first Director of the Academy of Venice, and paintings
by him are in Dresden, Cassel, Brunswick and other European towns.
Giovanni Marco Pitteri, 1703-1786, Italian engraver.
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The same [i.e. La Gierusalemme liberata del Tasso]
Foulis. with Le Clerc’s plates.
2. v.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 136, no. 8, La Gierusalemme Liberata, Foul. with Le Clerc’s Plates, 2 v 12mo.
TASSO,
Torquato.
La Gierusalemme Liberata di Torquato Tasso: con le Figure di Sebastiano Clerc. In
Due Volumi. Vol. I [-II].
In
Glasgua: della Stampa di
Roberto ed Andrea Foulis, e si vendono Appresso
Loro, e
Giovanni Balfour in
Edinburgo,
m.dcc.lxiii
. [1763.]
