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The Trees of the Genealogia Deorum of Boccaccio
192332899Chicago: The Caxton Club 1923. Hardcover. 4to. Half vellum and tan paper over boards. Ca. 50pp. 24 full-page plates as called for; 3 color. Very good. Binding typically slightly soiled else internally fine. A tight and attractive first edition. Limited to 160 copies. Wilkins studies the many genealogical tables used by Boccaccio in both manuscript and early printed versions of his "Genealogia deorum gentilium" a mythological encyclopedia. All captioned tissue guards present and pristine. A superb copy with the original Caxton Club prospectus laid in. The Caxton Club hardcover
