Orlando Furioso di M. Lodovico Ariosto, Tutto Ricorretto, et di Nuove Figure Adornato

Lodovico Ariosto;  Girolamo Ruscelli;

Venetia Appresso Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1572

[The Romance of Roland: Early Italian edition] Quarto. Early boards, rebacked with renewed leather spine. Spine gilt ruled and lettered. Good binding.  [16], 654, [32] p. Text in double columns. Title within architectural border, surmounted by portrait bust of author, and with Valgrisi's woodcut device.  Full-page woodcut illustrations, with ornamental sidepieces, at beginning of each canto; head-pieces; historiated initials; printed marginalia.  Scattered staining throughout, browning.  Chip missing from margin of rearmost leaf. Lacking final blank leaf.  Mortimer, Italian Books 29 (citing 1562 ed.), Adams A1673 (citing (1571 ed).