Torquato Tasso. Aminta favola boscareccia / con le annotationi d'Egidio Menagio. — Paris: Augustin Courbe, 1655.

Title-page: AMINTA | FAVOLA BOSCARECCIA | DI | TORQUATO TASSO | CON | LE ANNOTATIONI | D'EGIDIO MENAGIO | ACCADEMICO | DELLA CRVSCA• | {woodcut vignette} | IN PARIGI| Presso AGOSTINO Cvrbe`, nella Galeria del Palazzo, | all’ insegna della Palma. |—| M. DC. LV. ||

Collation: 4to; ā⁴ ē⁴ ī⁴ A² B² C-V⁴ Y-Z⁴ 2A_1,2 X⁴ 2A_3,4 2B-2Z⁴, 3A-3B⁴, total number of leaves = 200. Note: O₂, 2K₃, 2V₃ 2X₃ 2Y₃, and 3B₃ – unsigned, 2Z₃ signed 2Z₂ (Zz_ij), quire X (pp. 145-152) bound between 2A₂ (p. 172) and 2A₃ (p. 173); illustrated throughout with woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, Atto Primo has copperplate engraved historiated initial and a headpiece signed “F. C. in. — I. B. fe.” “I. B.” was a monogram of engraver Giulio Bonasone (Italian, c. 1498 – after 1574).

Pagination: [2] – t.p. / blank, [8] – dedication, i-xviii, [4], 1-341 [342-368]; total number of pages = 400.

Binding: 22.3 x 18 cm, 19th-century quarter morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering, rebacked, additional blank flyleaves at front and back, marbled endpapers and all edges. Bookplate to front pastedown: “The Robin Collection”. Verso front flyleaf stamped “RESTORED BY MACDONALD CO. | NORWALK. CONN.

Provenance: The Robin Collection.

Contributors:

Torquato Tasso (Italian, 1544 –1595) – author.

Gilles Ménage (French, 1613 – 1692) – author.

Antoine Vitré (French, 1595 – 1674) – printer.

Augustin Courbé (French, fl. c. 1625 – 1660) – publisher.

Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, comtesse de La Fayette (French, 1634 – 1693) – dedicatee.