The Pentameron
by Basile, Giambattista (Illustrations by Michael Ayrton.)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
London: Spring Books [no date]. (Hardcover) 402pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering. Frontispiece, illustrations, notes. The spine and corners are lightly bumped, the covers have some minor scuffs, the dust jacket has edgewear, and a scrape on the back panel that obscures some of the blurb. "Giambattista Basile (1575-1632) was a Neapolitan whose career was so typical taht it could hardly have interested posterity had he not indulged his hobby of collecting what subsequently become known as folk-stories, and amused himself by writing in the local dialect. Very few of the fifty tales of this book derive from literary sources, the great mass of them came straight from the still vigorous oral tradition". Time Period 16th Century & 17th Century. Illustrations by Michael Ayrton. Introduction by E.R. Vincent. Translated by Richard Burton. Locale: Italy. (Fiction, Folk Tales, Oral Tradition).
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- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 153785
- Title
- The Pentameron
- Author
- Basile, Giambattista (Illustrations by Michael Ayrton.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Spring Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Keywords
- Fiction, Folk Tales, Oral Tradition
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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About the Seller
Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
Biblio member since 2003
Winnipeg, Manitoba
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