Boccace

2007 · 223707 — Westminster: The Folio Society 2007. Reprint. Full Leather. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Buckland - Wright John. Type: Z A super copy of this limited edition leather bound Folio Society publication in a solander box. Copy number 141 of 1750 numbered copies printed by St Edmundsbury Press and bound by Real Lachenmaier Germany in red Wassa goatskin blocked with a design by Jeff Clements in gilt and black. Silk page divider attached at the head of the spine. Upper edges gilt. Illustrated with numerous reprductions of aquatints by Buckland-Wright throughout. There is a slight blemish to the head of the front board - which may be part of the normal variation expected in leather. The book remains fresh clean and tight. Comes in a super green solander box with the title Decameron embossed down the length of the spine. Also contains the 6pp booklet entitled The Happy Art of Narration : readings of Boccaccio and the Decameron. A fine copy. The Folio Society hardcover