The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
by Richard Aldington; with Aquatints by Buckland Wright
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Seller
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Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
E-371: The Folio Society. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 2007. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by The Folio Society Ltd at the St Edmundsbury Press, London, UK. 2007. 710 pgs. Illustrated in black and white. Limited to 1750 copies of which this is copy 498. Housed in a green clamshell box..bound by Real Lachenmaier, Germany, in Jeff Clements designed decorated Wassa Goatskin leather boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Folio Society is a privately owned London-based publisher, founded by Charles Ede in 1947 and incorporated in 1971. It produces illustrated hardback editions of classic fiction and non-fiction books, poetry and children's titles. Folio editions feature specially designed bindings and include artist-commissioned illustrations (most often in fiction titles) or researched artworks and photographs (in non-fiction titles). Most editions come with their own slipcase. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 562 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Last Exit Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 68375
- Title
- The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
- Author
- Richard Aldington; with Aquatints by Buckland Wright
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Folio Society
- Place of Publication
- E-371
- Date Published
- 2007
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Goatskin
- Goatskin, leather made from goat, is durable and easy to dye. The original and finest examples of Morocco binding are goatskin....
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...