Roland Furieux : Poeme Heroique
by Ariost - Arioste [Ariosto, Ludovico]; Gustave Dore
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Very Good/no dj as issued
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About This Item
Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1888. Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. Used - Very Good/no dj as issued. Gustave Dore. Very Good. , Paris, 1888. Large folio. (498 x 330 mm, 19 4/8 x 12 3/4 inches). Weight 17 pounds!. 658 pages, frontispiece and 81 steel-engraved full page plates, 681 steel-engraved vignettes in the text by Gustave Doré. Folio copy preserved in its splendid publisher cardboard in red percaline illustrated by A. Souze. Cover and back decorated and gilded, the first cover adorned with a gilded griffin, bearing standard and coat of arms, on a background of patterns, with oak leaves and helm. Last illustrated book by Gustave Doré,
-- -- Most pages and plates very clean. Very well preserved. The front cover is very well stamped, the gilding is bright. The gilding on the back is just a little tarnished, slight traces of handling, two small slots on the joints (max 2 cm).
Solid hinges. fresh and clean interior, light scattered foxing, denser on the first few pages. --- --- Roland Furieux (Orlando Furioso) required a long preparation work and can be understood as a synthesis of all the themes dear to the artist: medieval frames, forests, battle scenes, heroines of sublimated beauty, fantastic atmosphere. Most pages and plates very clean. Very well preserved. The plate on the first cover is very well stamped, the gilding is bright. The gilding on the back is a little tarnished, slight traces of handling, two small slots on the joints (max 2 cm).
Solid hinges. fresh and clean interior, light scattered foxing, denser at first.
-- -- Most pages and plates very clean. Very well preserved. The front cover is very well stamped, the gilding is bright. The gilding on the back is just a little tarnished, slight traces of handling, two small slots on the joints (max 2 cm).
Solid hinges. fresh and clean interior, light scattered foxing, denser on the first few pages. --- --- Roland Furieux (Orlando Furioso) required a long preparation work and can be understood as a synthesis of all the themes dear to the artist: medieval frames, forests, battle scenes, heroines of sublimated beauty, fantastic atmosphere. Most pages and plates very clean. Very well preserved. The plate on the first cover is very well stamped, the gilding is bright. The gilding on the back is a little tarnished, slight traces of handling, two small slots on the joints (max 2 cm).
Solid hinges. fresh and clean interior, light scattered foxing, denser at first.
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- Bookseller
- Rare Books Honolulu (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- H0-D4CP-P3PE
- Title
- Roland Furieux : Poeme Heroique
- Author
- Ariost - Arioste [Ariosto, Ludovico]; Gustave Dore
- Illustrator
- Gustave Dore
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- no dj as issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Illustrated Edition
- Publisher
- Librairie Hachette et Cie
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1888
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Gustave Dore
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fine Binding; Illustrated Books; French Books;
- Product_type
- 1
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