Ariosto (Lodovico) Orlando Furioso, collation: *4 **-***8 A-Z8 a-u8 a-l4, title within ornate engraved architectural border, and two similar divisional titles, 51 engraved full-page illustrations by Girolamo Porro, woodcut initials and other decoration, with blank u8 but lacking final blank, title with very short repaired tear to lower-margin and fore-margin extended, title and few other ff. with gutter repairs and mounted on stubs, mainly at beginning and end, L6-8 few small surface marks or abrasion affecting few letters, O6 & l1 repaired tear into text with very small loss, O3, Z1 & g1 with small hole affecting few letters or woodcut, a few other small marginal defects or repairs, trimmed close at head a few times shaving headline, occasional early annotation to margins, occasional damp-staining (affecting some annotations), some spotting and light browning, modern vellum, 4to (260 x 175mm), Venice, Francesco de Franceschi, 1584.

⁂ Literature: Adams A1677; Edit16 CNCE 2807.