Tasso, Torquato. Delle rime del signor Torquato Tasso. Parte prima [-seconda] insieme con altri componimenti del medesimo [2 vols]. Venice: Aldo II Manuzio, 1582

12mo (127 x 66 mm). Roman and italic type, 31 lines plus headline. collation: *¹² A-K¹² L-V¹²: 253 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device to title-page, large capital initials, decorat🍸ed initials, head and tail pieces. (V12 blank cut away, minor occasional stains and ink smudging, blank corner of title and M1 to second volume ꦬrepaired at lower outer corner.)

binding: Nin𒈔eteenth-century English dark green morocco (132 x 69 mm), gilt linear border around sides, gilt Aldine device on covers, spine with six bands, compartments with gilt fillet around si🌳des, gilt title, etc., marbled endpapers, gilt edges. (Extremities rubbed.)

provenance: Unidentified owner, early inscription "Antonii Papotti J.C." on title-page — Edward Clive Herbert, 2^nd Earl Powis (1785-1848), inscription on verso of endpaper and flyleaf of volume 2; A Catalogue of books printed by Aldus Manutius and his successors 1495-1597 in the possession of Lord Viscount Clive London 1825 (London, British Library, Add Ms 54176, f.82: "Tasso. 2 Vols. g.m. small 12.mo") — by descent to George Herbert, 4^th Earl Powis (1862-1952) — Sotheby's London, 20-22 March 1923, lot 591; purchased by — Bernard Quaritch, London; Catalogue of a most important collection of publications of the Aldine Press (London 1929), p. 73 — Swann Galleries New York, 25 September 1980, lot 16. acquisition: Purchased at Swann via Jonathan Hill. references: UCLA ✤947; Ren🐠ouard 231/7; Edit16 27617; USTC 858311