Lodovico Ariosto - Roland Furieux - 10 Vol

AUTHOR: Ludovico Ariosto (Translation by Charles-Joseph Panckoucke and Nicolas-Étienne Framery). TITLE: Roland Furieux, poème héroïque de l’Arioste. Traduction nouvelle par M. Panckoucke et Framery. (Text bilingual: Italian / French on facing pages). PLACE AND DATE OF PRINTING: Paris (Paris), Plassan (from the King's Cabinet printing office), 1787. EDITION: Original edition (first edition) of this specific prose translation with the original Italian text printed in Baskerville type. FORMAT: In-18° (about 13 cm). Work complete in 10 Volumes (Volumes I-X). Approximately 4,800 pages in total (averaging 450-560 pages per volume). Accompanied by off-text engraved plates, including the famous portrait of Ariosto engraved by Claude-Antoine Littret de Montigny (in Volume VI). BOUNDING: Contemporary uniform half-leather binding, boards in marbled paper, backs with four raised bands richly decorated with friezes and titles in gold. Colored edges. Obvious and typical signs of age (surface abrasions to the headcaps and boards, corners slightly bumped), but solid and compact structure. PROVENANCE NOTES OF PRESTIGE: This specific copy holds exceptional historical and bibliographical interest, configured as an 'association copy' documenting the intellectual lineage between two of the greatest French literary critics and Secretaries of the Académie française: Jean-François de La Harpe’s Library (1739–1803): The work originally belonged to the private library of the celebrated philosopher, dramatist, and close friend of Voltaire. Louis-Simon Auger’s Library (1772–1829): Purchased directly at the public sale of La Harpe’s estate in 1803 by the young Auger (future Perpetual Secretary of the Académie française). Each volume bears on the front pastedown the original typographic ex-libris

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