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1820 · 25277 — Firenze: presso Gius. Molini e comp. all'insegna di Dante 1820. Edition limited to 110 copies this one of 100 on regular paper; tall and very narrow 4to 348 x 75mm. pp. vii 1 307 1; wood-engraved vignette on title page and colophon on which it is recorded that this is the first book printed in the "papiriforme" i.e. column-like style; wood-engraved ornaments; original black morocco rebacked in matching green straight-grain morocco original label lettered and decorated in gilt preserved black coated endpapers a.e.g. long ribbon bookmark detached; some relatively minor waterstaining insect loss to the fore-margins of the last 5 leaves never touching letterpress else generally very good and sound. Each full page contains 118 lines of text plus headlines while each line is generally less than 10 words; the book is nearly 5 times as tall as it is wide. I'm willing to state this is the most unusual edition of The Decameron ever published though far from the rarest: OCLC finds 7 copies 5 in the U.S. <br/><br/> [presso Gius. Molini e comp.] all'insegna di Dante unknown books