Orlando Furioso
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Overview:
- Title: Orlando Furioso
- Author: Ludovico Ariosto
- Year: 1773
- Publisher: John Baskerville
- Pages: lviii+
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: Orlando Furioso (3rd edition)
- Notes:
- Published in 4 octavo volumes. Page counts: (lviii+362) + 450 + 446 + 446.
- Published by Baskerville for P. and G. Molini. Several WorldCat records list only Molini, or only "Birmingham", where it was published.
- Dedication signed: Pietro Molini.
- Variants are known with t.p. date 1771. According to Gaskell, the letterpress was probably printed in 1770, and the plates completed late in 1773 (though some plates in v. 3 & 4 bear the date 1774).
- 46 plates after Cipriani, Moreau le jeune, Cochin, and Greuze, engraved by Bartolozzi, Choffard, Delaunay, Prevost and others. Portrait of Ariosto by Eisen after Titian, engraved by Ficquet. See {{OCLC|253414839}} for more details on artists.
- Included a list of subscribers, apparently in vol. 4 for some printings and in vol. 1 for others.
- Data from WorldCat, from Bloomsbury Auctions (Jan. 23, 2014), and from PBA Galleries (Feb. 8, 2015 auction).
- Many OCLC records for this title. The German WorldCat records incorrectly list this as being in German.
- Vol. 1: {{OCLC|311065497}}, {{OCLC|630306459}}, {{OCLC|723950692}}, and {{OCLC|832331513}}.
- Vol. 2: {{OCLC|311378626}}, {{OCLC|630306482}}, {{OCLC|723950695}}, and {{OCLC|832331513}}.
- Vol. 3: {{OCLC|311378630}}, {{OCLC|630306488}}, {{OCLC|723950700}}, and {{OCLC|832331542}}.
- Vol. 4: {{OCLC|311378645}}, {{OCLC|630306497}}, {{OCLC|723950702}}, and {{OCLC|832331579}}.
- Full title records, see below.