Torquato Tasso

Crisopoli: impresso co' caratteri bodoniani, 1789 (but 1792). (310x230mm). [12], 14, [2], 142p. On the title page medallion with chalcographic portrait of the author and chalcographic head engraved by Lucatelli. Marginal specimen, in beards. Modern hardcover binding with a small gilt figure on the plates and gilt title on the spine. Blooms

Famous counterfeiting of the Bodoni original made 3 years after the original by Giuseppe, brother of the Bodoni typographer, which is distinguished by two small corrections: "Or" instead of "Ora" (p. 17) and "Novi Lini" for "New lights" (p. 38) (Gamba 958)