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Uniform title

[Gerusalemme liberata. English]

Title

Godfrey of Bovlogne: or the recouerie of Iervsalem. Done into English heroicall verse, by Edward Fairefax Gent.

Varying form of title

Fairefax's Tasso

Varying form of title

La Gerusalemme liberata

Varying form of title

Godfrey of Boulogne: or The recoverie of Jerusalem

Edition

And now the second time Imprinted, and Dedicated to His Highnesse: together with the life of the said Godfrey.

Publication, distribution, etc.

London : Printed by [Eliot's Court Press for] Iohn Bill, printer to the Kings most excellent majesty, 1624.

Physical description

[24], 392 p., [1] : pl. 28cm. (Fo.)

Note

Pencil on pastedown: "2 leaves in ms. and first leaf of allegory transposed". Pp. 41-44 are missing and have been replaced by ms. pages.

Note

A translation of: La Gerusalemme Liberata.

Note

Title within ornamental woodcut border.

Note

Printer information from STC.

Note

Frontis. portrait (plate) of Godfrey at p. [5], signed: Guil: Pass: fe., i.e. Willem van de Passe. Below: 'this is that Godfrey by whose valiant hand God freed from the Saracens the Holy Land'.

Note

Signatures: [par.]⁴, )(⁴, A⁴, B-2K⁶, 2L⁴.

Citation/references note

STC (2nd ed.), 23699

Citation/references note

ESTC, S117570

Additional physical form available

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1965. 1 microfilm reel; 35mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640: 1036:3).

Provenance

Ms. note on front flyleaf: "Sat insulsus quonam condietur. Edw. Harley. This booke was giuen mee by my Lord Generall Fairfax at Denton. Aprill 19. 1652".

Provenance

Armorial bookplate of Major General Villiers Hatton (1852-1914) on front pastedown.

Binding

?18th-century speckled brown calfskin over pasteboard. Double blind fillet to form a border on both covers; gilt roll over boards' edges. Rebacked; no raised bands; spine with blind and gilt fillets with gilt titling over red leather label ('Fairefax's Tasso'). Single endbands of laternating plain and blue thread. Textblock trimmed and flat. Pastedowns and endpapers of undecorated laid paper.

Copy-specific note

Loose bookseller's advertisement for this book inside front cover. Advertisement undated and priced at 15 guineas.

Copy-specific note

Misbound: A1-A4 appear between [par.]4 and )(1.

Copy-specific note

Ms. p. 41-44 to make up for gap in printed pages.

Copy-specific note

Ms. notes by ?bookseller, noting copy-specific characteristics as already noted in this catalogue entry.

Subject

Subject

Crusades First, 1096-1099 Poetry.

Added entry--name

Bill, John, ? - -1630 bookseller.

Added entry--name

Hatton, Villiers, 1852 - 1914 Major General, former owner.

Added entry--name

Harley, Edward, 1689 - 1741 Sir, former owner.

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Added entry--place

England London.

Language code

eng ita

Identifier

B24859
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