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1901rif. 416161901 Ltd Ed The DECAMERON Giovanni BOCCACCIO Human Comedy Black Death English 2v "The Decameron" by Giovanni Boccaccio is a classic of Italian literature composed of 100 stories narrated by ten people—seven women and three men—who seek refuge in a villa outside Florence to escape the Black Death. The tales which vary from erotic to tragic witty to instructive offer a vivid portrayal of 14th-century life and underscore the human experience with humor and wisdom. Boccaccio's work written in the Florentine vernacular is celebrated for its dynamic and realistic dialogue. Boccaccio is revered as a pioneering humanist and for his contributions to the promotion and interpretation of Dante's works earning him a place among the "Three Crowns" of Italian literature. This limited edition is hand-numbered #109 of 1000. Translated into English prose and verse by John Payne this two-volume set also includes 20 exquisite full-page illustrations. Item number: #41616 Price: $499 BOCCACCIO Giovanni; PAYNE John The Decameron of Giovanni Boccacci Il Boccaccio. Now First Completely Done into English Prose and Verse by John Payne with Twenty Full Page Illustrations. London: Privately Printed for Members of the Aldus Society MCMI. Limited Edition. Details: <!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Collation: Complete; 2 volumes <!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->Vol. I – xii 310 <!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->Vol. II – 4 vii 1 311-617 1 <!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->20 full-page engraved plates <!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Language: English <!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Binding: Leather; tight and secure <!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Size: ~8in X 5.75in 20cm x 14cm Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving and we will offer a full refund without reservation! 41616 Photos available upon request. Privately Printed for Members of the Aldus Society hardcover
rif. L3 box749 b1Giovanni Boccaccio: Decameron; Filocolo; Ameto; Fiammetta. La Letteratura Italiana Storia e Testi Volume 8 Italian Edition. A cura di Enrico Carlo Salinari Natalino Sapegno. Riccardo Ricciardi Editore. Hardcover 1262 pp. Riccardo Ricciardi Editore. hardcover
1518rif. 29126This 1815–1816 Italian-language edition of Giovanni Boccaccio's Il Decamerone printed in London comprises five volumes in two tomes. The set includes Filippo Villani's biographical sketch of Boccaccio. Each day a group of young Florentines fleeing the plague share stories building a collection of tales drawn from themes of wit misadventure romance and folk tradition. The format is sextodecimo 16mo compactly sized at approximately 5.5 x 3.5 inches and bound in marbled boards with leather spines and morocco title labels. Very Good condition with firm binding and clean internal pages; minor wear consistent with age. No illustrations noted. Edition: 1815–1816 London. Collation: each volume separately paged. #29126 PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. hardcover
1921rif. 29631The Decameron one of the most important literary works of the Italian Renaissance was written by Giovanni Boccaccio in the 14th century and translated into English by J.M. Rigg in this striking de luxe edition privately printed in London circa 1921. This edition is limited to 1000 copies and presented across two large quarto volumes. Boccaccio's frame narrative set during the Black Death features ten young Florentines recounting tales of love wit and survival capturing a vivid cross-section of medieval society. This English rendering is noted for its elegance and historical faithfulness and this particular printing includes full-page engravings that illustrate and punctuate the text. A cornerstone of early humanist literature The Decameron remains a pivotal cultural artifact bridging medieval narrative with modern sensibilities. Good. Text blocks are secure with minor pulling boards show wear and staining with notable loss to hinges. Hardcover volumes remain structurally intact and internally complete. Format: Quarto 4to two volume set. Collation: Vol I 332 pp; Vol II 404 pp. Illustrations: Full-page engravings throughout. Edition: Limited "de luxe" edition privately printed c. 1921. References: #29631. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Privately Printed hardcover
1592rif. 52248Venice: Bonfadino. Good. 1592. Softcover. Contemporary rustic paper binding. Partial bookplate. Some loss of paper to spine. No front or terminal blanks no frontis. Pp 144 10 1blank 70 Dialogo D'Amore misnumbered but all pages present. Occasional underlining in the text. ; 24mo 5" - 6" tall . Bonfadino paperback
1916rif. H39369New Castle PA: C. B. Randall 1916. Hardcover. Fair. Letter "T" of 26 lettered copies. Translated and illustrated by Josef Pierre Nuyttens. 4 of 5 volumes lacking the last volume folio 15.25 x 11.25 inches bound in full brown pigskin with watered silk endpapers and printed on very thick handmade paper. The first volume is in fair condition at best with front board detached and much rubbing and wear including a long jagged scar to cover. The other volumes are in very good condition with light wear to edges and joints contents very good: a few of the plates have some faint rusty foxing to margins. Illustrated with 7 fine pen drawings hand colored by Nuyttens and the publisher C. B. Randall has illustrated the volukmes with several smaller vignettes in ink watercolor and gouache and occasional hand-colored and illuminated letters all initialed C. B. R. It will be clear to anyone that Randall is without much talent skill or sense of draughtsmanship but he sure liked to make fancy books. He is also noted for publishing a lavish edition of the works of James Whitcomb Riley. Nuyttens 1885-1960 was a Belgian-American artist now mostly known for his illustrations for four non-Oz novels by L. Frank Baum. He died in a house fire that destroyed a good deal of his art. C. B. Randall hardcover
1725rif. 164132Londra: Tommaso Edlin 1725. Hardcover. Internally VGand clean one stain to one sheet both covers are off at hinges text block solid and tight. Gilt embossed and leather inlay within leather gilt ruled boards. Five raised bands with extensive gilt tooling within compartments showing wear all edges gilt. Marbled endpapers indicate binding date in 1880s with signed binder Estes and Lauriat Boston.Frontis portrait by L. Auberso. Title-page ten10 sheets including Prefazione then 284 numbered 12 49 pp. ozzervazioni. Bears the etched bookplate of Stephen Whitney dated 1904. Needs the attentions of a binder who will have wonderful material to work with. Well-worththe investment a lovely copy. Tommaso Edlin hardcover
1915rif. 218503Florence: Fratelli Alinari 1915. First edition thus. Plates by Tito Lessi Printed by Tip. S. Landi Via S. Caterina. 670 pp. 4to. Original printed tan wrappers. Very fine in blue cloth slipcase and chemise. First edition thus. Plates by Tito Lessi Printed by Tip. S. Landi Via S. Caterina. 670 pp. 4to. Fratelli Alinari unknown
1597rif. 798Amsterdam: Cornille Claesz 1597. Early French edition. A rare late-16th century French edition of Boccaccio’s Decameron one of the foundational works of Western literature and a cornerstone of Renaissance humanist storytelling. First written in the 14th century the Decameron comprises one hundred novellas told by ten young Florentines sheltering outside the city during the Black Death. The tales range from romantic and tragic to humorous erotic moral and political forming one of the most influential narrative sequences in European literary history. This 1597 Amsterdam printing uses the celebrated French translation of Antoine Le Maçon court favorite of Francis I and is a corrected and illustrated edition compared to earlier printings making it an important early Continental witness to the French reception of Boccaccio. This volume would be an exceptional addition for collectors of Renaissance literature early printing French editions of classics plague-era narratives and works pivotal in shaping Chaucer Shakespeare Molière Balzac and countless authors thereafter. Internally the text remains highly readable with its original period typeface early pagination woodcut ornaments and decorative printer’s devices at title and colophon. The closing leaf states FIN with an ornamental tailpiece consistent with 16th-century printing conventions. Includes the full cycle of tales including stories of love cleverness vice clergy satire virtue rewarded and the social wit that earned Boccaccio both admiration and censorship for centuries. Condition & Binding: Period full leather binding with raised bands and gilt spine ornamentation well-worn with rubbing and losses spine cracking and some leather deterioration see photos. Both boards present but detached/separated. Overall- poor. Cornille Claesz unknown
1802rif. 270391Livorno: Tomasso Masi 1802. hardcover. very good. 217 pages Vita di Dante Alighieri in 80 pages Testamento in 8 pages Lettere di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio in 50 pages. Thick 8vo full tree calf ornately gilt spine and covers rubbed at extremities all edges gilt. Livorno: Thomas Masi 1802. Very good . Tomasso Masi unknown
1725rif. 164132Londra: Tommaso Edlin 1725. Hardcover. Internally VGand clean one stain to one sheet both covers are off at hinges text block solid and tight. Gilt embossed and leather inlay within leather gilt ruled boards. Five raised bands with extensive gilt tooling within compartments showing wear all edges gilt. Marbled endpapers indicate binding date in 1880s with signed binder Estes and Lauriat Boston.Frontis portrait by L. Auberso. Title-page ten10 sheets including Prefazione then 284 numbered 12 49 pp. ozzervazioni. Bears the etched bookplate of Stephen Whitney dated 1904. Needs the attentions of a binder who will have wonderful material to work with. Well-worththe investment a lovely copy. Tommaso Edlin hardcover books
1915rif. 218503Florence: Fratelli Alinari 1915. First edition thus. Plates by Tito Lessi Printed by Tip. S. Landi Via S. Caterina. 670 pp. 4to. Original printed tan wrappers. Very fine in blue cloth slipcase and chemise. First edition thus. Plates by Tito Lessi Printed by Tip. S. Landi Via S. Caterina. 670 pp. 4to. Fratelli Alinari unknown books
1802rif. 270391Livorno: Tomasso Masi 1802. hardcover. very good. 217 pages Vita di Dante Alighieri in 80 pages Testamento in 8 pages Lettere di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio in 50 pages. Thick 8vo full tree calf ornately gilt spine and covers rubbed at extremities all edges gilt. Livorno: Thomas Masi 1802. Very good . Tomasso Masi unknown books
1629rif. 287278A Paris: Chez Iacqves Langlois au mont sainct Hylaire 1629. Early Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. An early edition of Antoine le Maçon’s French translation of Boccaccio’s Decameron. A classic of Renaissance literature containing 100 tales by numerous narrators set in the time of Florentine’s affliction with the Black Death. Title page vignette; engraved headpieces and initials. Previous owners’ names on the front endpaper. Loss to the bottom of pp. 319/320 not affecting the text. Japanese tissue patches to the spine by a conservator. Incision to the leather binding of the rear cover. General shelfwear and minor soiling to the binding. ‘Bocace’ written in ink on the top edge of the textblock. Full vellum. Very Good. 1060 pp. Very Good binding. Chez Iacqves Langlois, au mont sainct Hylaire unknown
1629rif. 287278A Paris: Chez Iacqves Langlois au mont sainct Hylaire 1629. Early Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. An early edition of Antoine le Maçon’s French translation of Boccaccio’s Decameron. A classic of Renaissance literature containing 100 tales by numerous narrators set in the time of Florentine’s affliction with the Black Death. Title page vignette; engraved headpieces and initials. Previous owners’ names on the front endpaper. Loss to the bottom of pp. 319/320 not affecting the text. Japanese tissue patches to the spine by a conservator. Incision to the leather binding of the rear cover. General shelfwear and minor soiling to the binding. ‘Bocace’ written in ink on the top edge of the textblock. Full vellum. Very Good. 1060 pp. Very Good binding. Chez Iacqves Langlois, au mont sainct Hylaire unknown books
rif. 70717Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and published for the Press by Basil Blackwell 1935. Mediaeval Literature LIMITED PRIVATE PRESS EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Quarto 29 x 21cm pp.6 xvi; 318 6; pp.4 xvi; 268 6. With occasional woodcut illustrations produced in facsimile by Beedham and Francis. Number 64 of 325 copies thus letter-press printed on fine hand-made paper. Publisher's blue full morocco with gilt titles to spine. Top edges gilt others untrimmed with marbled endpapers. A series of old printed booksellers' descriptions loose to preliminaries. Internally crisp and clean with some sunning and light wear to spines. Near fine. A fine private press edition of Isaac Jaggard's first complete English edition from 1625 paired with facsimiles of the woodcuts from an edition printed in Venice in 1492 by the De Gregorii brothers. Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, and published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1935 unknown
1952rif. AQ24646Verona: Editiones Officinae Bodoni 1952. Limited edition of 225 copies on hand-made Fabriano paper of which this is copy number 160. xi 1 127pp 3. With 23 woodcuts and a facsimile of the title page of the 1597 English edition. Original publisher's vellum-backed patterned paper boards lettered in gilt T.E.G. others uncut. Lightly rubbed corners bumped. Internally immaculate. A remarkably handsome edition of Boccaccio's greatest poem and unquestionably the best of his minor works. This edition unites the Elizabethan English translation with the woodcuts created for a lost fifteenth-century Italian edition . Quarto. Editiones Officinae Bodoni hardcover
rif. 193689René Kieffer Paris 1925 In-8 ( 250 X 170 mm ) de 170 pages, broché sous couverture illustrée en couleurs rempliée. Illustrations en couleurs dans et hors-texte de Alfred LE PETIT. Très bel exemplaire numéroté sur vélin de cuve.
1976rif. 71513Nice, Joseph Pardo. Édition d' Art Sefer à l' Enseigne Du Chant Des Sphères, 1976-1978, 263, 236, 177, 222, 216 pages.
1574rif. 17322AB1574. Fiorenza Giunti 1574. 20 : 145 cm. 20 leaves 142 pages 8 leaves with 2 woddcut portraits and two woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum First edition rare. - From the library of M. Landau with his Exlibris. - The first pages at the edges a bit rubbed occasionally some foxing the last pages with some waterstains at the edges not affecting the text; binding a bit wrinkled edgas a bit damaged. hardcover
2007rif. 48835Folio Society 2007. 4to. First Edition thus with 20 aquatints; full red morocco sides and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt and green to geometric designed by Jeff Clements gilt top ribbon marker a near fine copy housed in publisher's board slip-case lettered in gilt. EDITION LIMITED TO 1750 COPIES. With separate booklet 'The Happy Art of Narration Readings of Boccaccio and the Decameron' by Dryden Coleridge Hazlitt Shelley and Leight Hunt. Folio Society, unknown
rif. 23562Londra (Londres) 1757 in 8 (20,5x13) 3 volumes reliures plein veau porphyre de l'époque, dos lisses ornés de caissons dorés, pièces de titre et de tomaison de cuir marron, triple filet doré d'encadrement sur les plats, roulette dorée intérieure, filet doré sur les coupes, tranches dorées. Exemplaire sur vergé fort à grandes marges. Giovanni Boccacio, écrivain italien et latin du 14e siècle. Tomes 1, 3 et 5 seuls, illustrés par Gravelot, Cochin, Boucher, Eisen, dont nombreux hors-texte, vignettes et culs-de-lampe gravés. Etiquette de la collection de M. Roy. Ensemble incomplet, mais très bien relié ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
1875Cm. 27, pp. xiv, 736. Con un fac-simile d'autografo ripiegato f.t. all'antiporta. Solida ed elegantre legatura recente d'amatore in mezza pelle con punte, dorso liscio con titoli e fregi a secco. Esemplare genuino, marginoso ed in ottimo stato di conservazione. Esemplare stampato su carta distinta nella rara tiratura in carta grande. Edizione originale ed unica di questa pubblicazione che presenta la nona novella della giornata prima del Decamerone voltata in un numero incredibile di dialetti italiani (oltre 500!). Le versioni dialettali sono tutte composte e firmate da autori spesso assai celebri nelle zone da cui proviene il dialetto utilizzato.
1834rif. s00012267Firenze / Florence: Per Il Magheri 1834. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition of this collected works 17 volumes in 9 books plus a 10th book the Vita di . Boccacci 1806 labeled vol. 18 on the spine. 10 volumes total. Florence 1827-1834 the Vita Firenze 1806 uniformly bound: half vellum marbled boards leather spine labels in dark and light brown. Books are very good with light soil to vellum spine labels intact but cracked and slightly chipped contents very good and bright unmarked. The Vita has three plates printed in sepia plus a frontispiece portrait. RARE on the market. Per Il Magheri hardcover
1820rif. 32052AB1820. Firenze Si Trova In Avignone Presso Fr. Seguin stampatore e librajo 1820. Duodecimo 8.5 cm wide x 13.5 cm high. 157 pages. Original Hardcover / Original 19th century boards. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. hardcover
