8vo. In two volumes. lviii, [17]-286; [2], 264pp, [48]. Without Vol. II half-title. With an engraved frontispiece to each volume and two further engraved plates. Handsomely bound in contemporary black straight-grain morocco, ruled and lettered in gilt, A.E.G., marbled endpapers. A trifle rubbed. Armorial bookplate of the Williams family of Bridehead to FEPs.

A handsome large-paper copy of John Hoole's (1727-1803) translation of Torquato Tasso's (1544-1595) epic poem of the First Crusade Gerusalemme liberata, first published in 1763.

Provenance: From the recently dispersed country house library at Bridehead, Dorset.