n.p.: n.p. n.d. circa late 18th century. Hardcover. Fair. Hardcover. Volume two only of this French translation of Boccaccio's stories. Small octavo in brown leather with front board and free front endpaper detached and back board missing. Raised bands to spine with title label missing. Brown spotting throughout. Just fair condition. 383 pages plus table of stories. FRE/12031. n.p. hardcover
New York: Limited Editions Club 1930. Hardcover. Bookplate on each front pastedown. Bump to tops of each spine with paper split to rear hinge of the second volume. Very Good in a Fair slipcase lacking the back edge. Two small folio volumes 9" x 11-3/4" bound in burnt sienna cloth with leather spine labels. Newly translated from the Italian by Frances Winwar with an introduction by Burton Rascoe. Designed and decorated by T. M. Cleland the first book of the press featuring this master American designer's work. Copy #938 of 1500 SIGNED by the designer. <br/><br/> Limited Editions Club hardcover
London: Navarre Society c.1930. 1st edition thus. hardback with dust jacket. Near Fine. octavo. 332 440pp. frontis2 col & b/w pls. The Best Illustrated Edition Navarre Society hardcover
London: Philip Lee Warner : Publisher to the Medici Society RICCARDI PRESS 1909. Book. Very Good. Wraps. . Number 488 of 500 copies. Printed on Batchelor hand-made paper letterpress. Pale blue card covers cream pages. Two small closed tears at either end of spine otherwise very nice. Philip Lee Warner : Publisher to the Medici Society, RICCARDI PRESS Paperback
Avignon 1781. Collationengraved frontispiece 256pp 1 full page illustrations 4 vignettes. Bound in full contemporary mottled calf flat gilt bands elaborate gilt tooling on spine full coloured edges marble endpapers. Calf rubbed and suffed with some wear loss on edges and corners hinge joints cracked but boards still firmly attached. Generally binding in good condition.Internally previous owners bookplate on fixed endpaper 8 pages with light stain mark to margins.Pages in very good clean condition. A very nice copy in a contemporary full calf binding. Book measures 13x20cms.A55. New Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Avignon Hardcover
Paperback / softback. New. The editors have selected 33 of the 100 tales including at least two from each of the ten days of storytelling. Included as well are Boccaccio's general introduction and conclusion to the work as well as the introduction and conclusion to the first day; the reader is thus provided with a real sense of the Decameron's framing narrative. paperback
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