Engraved title-page: L’AMINTA | FAVOLA BOSCHERECCIA | DI | TORQUATO TASSO | Aggiuntovi il Poemetto | Amore Fugitivo |{vignette} | IN VENEZIA | MDCCLXIX |—| PRESSO ANTONIO ZATTA | CON LICENZA DE’ SUPERIORI || in historiated frame, signed below: “Pet. Ant. Novelli in — Fambrini inci.”
Pagination: [i] ii-xxiv, [1-2] 3-84, total 108 pages, ils.
Collation: 12mo; a12, A-C12 D6, last blank; first 6 leaves signed in 12-leave quires, first 3 in D; total 54 leaves plus 9 plates, incl. engraved title and frontispiece, and numerous head- and tailpieces by Fambrini after Novelli.
Binding: 18.6 x 11 cm, contemporary tree calf, rebacked, crimson label with gilt lettering; clipping and bookplate of The Robin Collection to front pastedown; verso front flyleaf stamped “RESTORED BY MACDONALD CO. | NORWALK. CONN.” Additional blank leaves at front and back.
Provenance: Satinsky, Robin F. (American, 1919 – 2008); The Robin Collection.
Contributors:
Torquato Tasso (Italian, 1544 –1595) – author.
Pietro Antonio Novelli (Italian, 1729 – 1804) – artist.
Ferdinando Fambrini (Italian (1764 – c.1793) – engraver.
Antonio Zatta (Italian, c. 1722 – 1804) – printer, publisher.
