Boccaccio's Decameron. The modell of wit, mirth, mirth, eloquence and conversation framed in ten dayes, of an hundred curious pieces, by seven honourable ladies, and three noble gentlemen by Boccaccio, Giovanni - 1934

London: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and published for the press by Basil Blackwell, 1934. #159 of 325 copies. Title pages printed within woodcut borders, woodcut decorations throughout by R. J. Beedham and E. Joyce Francis after those found in the 1492 Venetian edition of Boccaccio printed by Joannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, decorative initial letters and running headlines printed in blue. 319; 268pp. 2 vols. 4to. This copy is one of an unspecified, but small, number of copies bound in full blue morocco, t.e.g. on the rough, rest uncut (Colin Franklin notes the standard binding as "half bound in morocco on linen"). #159 of 325 copies. Title pages printed within woodcut borders, woodcut decorations throughout by R. J. Beedham and E. Joyce Francis after those found in the 1492 Venetian edition of Boccaccio printed by Joannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, decorative initial letters and running headlines printed in blue. 319; 268pp. 2 vols. 4to.