Boccace

1916 · 019615 — New Castle Pa.: C. B. Randall Publisher 1916. Book. Half Vellum Silk Cvrd.brds. Signed By the Publisher. No. 82 of 140 Copies. 5 volumes. A good copy the blue watered silk covers are faded around the the edges on four volumes and on the remaining volume 4th vol. the whole front cover is faded the vellum is a bit soiled on all volumes and there is a bookplate on the paste-down endpaper of each volume. The top edges are gilt. The frontispiece and the nine original etchings are clean and nearly all other text pages are clean. On the title page this is called the Mary Rose Randall edition. There were probably 26 six copies which contained eleven hand-lettered or illuminated initials. This is NOT one of those copies. The space is present for the initial but it is blank. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. C. B. Randall, Publisher hardcover