Torquato Tasso

Milano: Luigi Sacchi Editore, 1944, Tipografia Guglielmini e Redaelli, 1842, 2 vols. (250x175mm). 278 p.; 384, XCIV p. (Life of Torquato Tasso written by Giuseppe Sacchi). Missing the 2 c. geographical f.t. and the portrait of A. frontispiece. Beautiful woodcut title pages. Full leather binding with embossed decorations on the plates, gilt title on the spine, with defects. verse cuts. Widespread blooms. Ed. illustrated by about 200 beautiful engravings, considered one of the most beautiful Italian figurative books of the romantic period, unfortunately with huge flourishes and without the 2 plates. f.t. (2)