Il pecorone di ser giovanni fiorentino nel quale si contengono cinquanta novelle antiche Belle d'invenzione e di stile
by FIORENTINO, Giovanni
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Londra [i.e. London]: Presso Riccardo Bancker, 1793. In two volumes. xxx, [2], 304; 307pp, [1]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece to Vol. I. Contemporary green calf-backed marbled boards, gilt, marbled edges. Light rubbed and marked, spines sunned. Marbled endpapers, contemporary book-labels to FEPs, marginal loss to leaf B6, Vol. II, lightly foxed. A collection of 50 Florentine novellas attributed to fourteenth-century author Giovanni Fiorentino; written between 1378 and 1385, and first printed in Milan in 1558. The work appears to have served as a source for Shakespeare's plays The Merry Wives of Windsor and The Merchant of Venice - with one tale featuring an Italian merchant and a Jewish moneylender. Though the imprint states this edition to have been printed in London, Livorno is the more probable publishing location. This edition includes notes by Italian classicist Anton Maria Salvini (1653-1729) and a life of Fiorentino by G. Poggioli. ESTC T99009.. 8vo.
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- Bookseller
- Antiquates Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AQ16830
- Title
- Il pecorone di ser giovanni fiorentino nel quale si contengono cinquanta novelle antiche Belle d'invenzione e di stile
- Author
- FIORENTINO, Giovanni
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Presso Riccardo Bancker
- Place of Publication
- Londra [i.e. London]
- Date Published
- 1793
- Keywords
- Italian Literature
- Size
- 8vo
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
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Antiquates Ltd
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Wareham, Dorset
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- Marbled boards
- ...