Boccaccio's Decameron: The Model of Wit, Mirth, Eloquence and Conversation, framed in ten dayes, of an hundred curious pieces, by seven honourable ladies, and three noble gentlemen. Preserved to posterity by the renowned John Boccaccio, the first refiner of Italian Prose: and now translated into English. Volumes I and II

Name: Boccaccio's Decameron: The Model of Wit, Mirth, Eloquence and Conversation, framed in ten dayes, of an hundred curious pieces, by seven honourable ladies, and three noble gentlemen. Preserved to posterity by the renowned John Boccaccio, the first refiner of Italian Prose: and now translated into English. Volumes I and II
Author: BOCCACCIO, Giovanni (1313-1375), [FLORIO, John, translator], [BEEDHAM, R.J., and FRANCIS, Joyce, illustrators]

BOCCACCIO, Giovanni (1313-1375), [FLORIO, John, translator], [BEEDHAM, R.J., and FRANCIS, Joyce, illustrators]

Published by Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, and published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1935

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[Mediaeval Literature] LIMITED PRIVATE PRESS EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Quarto (29 x 21cm), pp.[6] xvi; 318 [6]; pp.[4] xvi; 268 [6]. With occasional woodcut illustrations produced in facsimile by Beedham and Francis. Number 64 of 325 copies thus, letter-press printed on fine hand-made paper. Publisher's blue full morocco, with gilt titles to spine. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed, with marbled endpapers. A series of old printed booksellers' descriptions loose to preliminaries. Internally crisp and clean, with some sunning and light wear to spines. Near fine. A fine private press edition of Isaac Jaggard's first complete English edition from 1625, paired with facsimiles of the woodcuts from an edition printed in Venice in 1492 by the De Gregorii brothers.

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Title: Boccaccio's Decameron: The Model of Wit, Mirth, Eloquence and Conversation, framed in ten dayes, of an hundred curious pieces, by seven honourable ladies, and three noble gentlemen. Preserved to posterity by the renowned John Boccaccio, the first refiner of Italian Prose: and now translated into English. Volumes I and II
Author: BOCCACCIO, Giovanni (1313-1375), [FLORIO, John, translator], [BEEDHAM, R.J., and FRANCIS, Joyce, illustrators]
Publisher: Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, and published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1935
Binding: Hardcover
Seller catalogs: Gift Books & Fine Bindings, Illustrated & Plate Books, Literature

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