Jerusalem delivered : an heroic poem (large paper edition)

Translated from the Italian of Torquato Tasso, by John Hoyle. London : printed by T. Bentley for J. Johnson [and others], 1803. Eighth edition. Two volumes, octavo, finely bound in full straight grained red Morocco, elaborate gilt tooled floral borders, spines in compartments with raised bands, lettered and tooled in gilt (slightly faded), edges a little rubbed, all edges gilt, wet stamps from previous owner to pastedown, early owner’s name to endpaper, engraved frontispiece (neatly detached), pp. xlvii; [blank]; 339; 335; [blank]; (44 – index), engraved, a fine set.

‘Torquato Tasso (11 March 1544 – 25 April 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century, known for his 1591 poem Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered), in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christians and Muslims at the end of the First Crusade, during the Siege of Jerusalem of 1099.’ – Wikipedia.