Boccaccio's Decameron
by Boccaccio
- Used
- very good
- Condition
- very good
- Seller
-
St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Shakespeare Head Press, 1935. Full Leather. very good. Quarto(s) (11' x8") Two volume set. Bound in full blue leather. Gilt lettering to spines.Illustrated with wood-cut engravings.. Decorative initial letters printed in blue. Printed by Isaac Jaggard. Limited to 350 copies of which this is #175. Some light scuffing and edge wear to spines. Corners bumped. The text of the First volume has been prepared from that of the First English translation, printed by Isaac Jaggard for Mathew Lownes in 1625, and compared with the first edition of 1620. The wood engravings have been re-cut by R.J.Beedham and E.Joyce Francis from thos in the edition printed by the Brothers Gregorii at Venice in 1492. Text has been set by hand in Caslon's type. Illustrations have been copied in facsimile with a slight reduction from the woodcuts in the edition of the Decameron printed in Venice by the brothers De Gregorii in 1492.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Midway Used and Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 66353
- Title
- Boccaccio's Decameron
- Author
- Boccaccio
- Format/Binding
- Full Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Shakespeare Head Press
- Date Published
- 1935
- Keywords
- Shakespeare Head Press
- Bookseller catalogs
- Private Press;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Midway Used and Rare Books
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St. Paul, Minnesota
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...