Tasso. — *Jerusalem Delivered*. A poem by Tasso, translated - Lot 433

Tasso. — *Jerusalem Delivered*. A poem by Tasso, translated by Lebrun. Paris, Bossange, Masson & Besson, Year II [1794]. 2 volumes, in-8, bound in full period calfskin, with covers decorated with a framed roulette pattern, plain, decorated spine, title and volume number labels in green morocco, rolled pattern on the edges, gilt edges—corners pierced, slight skin wear, scattered foxing—[2 ff., title folio, title page], 364 pp.; [1 f. title page], 351 pp. Illustrated with 2 allegorical frontispieces featuring medallion portraits of Gravelot and Torquato Tasso and 2 title vignettes engraved by Henriquez after Gravelot, as well as 20 unsigned half-page figures and 2 unsigned tailpieces. An entertaining edition of the highly fictionalized account of the battles between Christians and Muslims at the end of the First Crusade, during the siege of Jerusalem.