Boccaccio, Giovanni / Rigg, J MBiblio.com
Boccaccio, GiovanniBiblio.com
The Decameron Brentano's New York
1914100682London: Gibbings & Co. 1914. 4 volumes complete octavo half-leather bindings decorated and titled in gilt to spine raised bands engraved illus title page and frontis plate each volume b&w plates engraved each volume top edges gilt marbled endpapers pp xxxii 250; ix 342; x 356; ix 347. The illustrations are reproduced from the plates engraved for the edition of 1757 and designed by Gravelot Eisen Boucher and others. Fore-edge of spine vol. I and IV starting to fray water-mark first blank endpaper vo. I small crack beneath title vol III. "Brentano's New York" label to rear paste-down first volume. Very good condition. A collection of stories by the 14th century author Giovanni Boccaccio structured as 100 tales told by young men and women sheltering in a villa just outside Florence to escape the plague. This edition is based on that published by Sharpe in 1822; the plates are reproduced from the celebrated edition of 1857. This set from the New York Booksellers and Stationers Brentano's. Half leather. Gibbings & Co hardcover
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