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Published by The Folio Society, London, 1954
Seller: Washburn Books, Pateley Bridge, United Kingdom
Brown Decorated Boards. Condition: Good. No Jacket. John Buckland-Wright (illustrator). First Thus. Collection of stories by the Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) told by a group of young men and women as they sheltered in a villa near Florence to avoid the Black Death. Vol I only. 393pp illustrated with 10 aquatints. Green and red decoration to top board and spine, with gilt title to spine. Top edges dust-marked, some foxing to edges and endpapers, otherwise good copy with no inscriptions. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book.
Published by Folio Society, London, 1955
Seller: SAVERY BOOKS, Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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Hardback. Condition: Very Good Plus. John Buckland Wright (illustrator). VOLUME TWO ONLY. Decorated hard boards. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. NO JACKET. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner, securely boxed in cardboard. ref OF30. The Decameron of Gionanni Boccaccio: The Last Five Days. Translated by Richard Aldington. Illustrated by John Buckland Wright. VOLUME TWO ONLY.
Leather. Condition: FINE. 712 pp. 10Ë x 6¼Ë . Copy number 1069 of an edition limited to 1750. Printed by St Edmundsbury Press and finely bound in red Nigerian 'Wassa' goatskin by Real Lachenmaier in Germany. Gilt and navy blue blocked with an abstract design by Jeff Clements, containing motifs of medieval windows and male and female symbols. Green morroco spine label, top edge gilt, ribbon marker. Presented in a green solander box, together with a booklet 'The Happy Art of Narration: Readings of Boccaccio and the Decameron' by selected writers. Set in Poliphilus. Entirely clean and sharp with no evidence of life outside the box.