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1925rif. 13745THE DECAMERON Vols. 1 & 2 Boni & Liveright 1925 first edition front inner hinge starting on the second volume else a tight very good set with 48 illustrations by Clara Tice. 1/2000 copies SIGNED by the pubishers. Translated by John Payne. Boni & Liveright unknown books
1906rif. 13746THE DECAMERON Vols. 1 & 2 Harry F. Bumpus 1906 vg copies with t.p.e.'s gold-gilt fore edge and bottom edge uncut and with illustrations by Louis Chalon. Translated by J. M. Rigg. Harry F. Bumpus unknown books
1930rif. 01266THE DECAMERON OF GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO Limited Editions Club 1930 first edition thus 2 vols. a fine set in worn slip-case missing the spine. 1/1500 copies SIGNED by artist T. M. Cleland. LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB unknown books
1893rif. 01265THE DECAMERON OF GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO Lawrence & Bullen 1893 first edition thus 2 vols. some light wear to the fore edge corner tips of each with some light stains to several of them as well as the upper sections of the spines several leaves of volume 2 with wear and tear to the upper fore edge with some missing a blank section of the leaf and one detached and in need of repair to save some of the text else a bright vg set bound in half red leather with raised spines and gold-gilt lettering and decoration with red cloth panels and marbled end-papers. 1/1000 copies. Illustrated by Louis Chalon. Still a most handsome set despite the flaws in the second volume. Lawrence & Bullen hardcover books
1947rif. 119615New York: The World Publishing Company 1947. Hardcover. Good. Special ed. Good HC has bumped corners and spine ends no dust jacket. The World Publishing Company hardcover books
1931rif. 243708New York: Hartsdale 1931. Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrated. Very good/Hardcover no dust jacket Light browning name on end paper. Cover rubbed and browning with some staining. Hartsdale hardcover books
1979rif. 121440NJ: Prentice 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. Illustrated by Bill Gow. Very good in good dust jacket. Light sticker shadow on half-title page. Clean pages. Clean cover. Tape on inside dust jacket. Small tear on bottom edge of front and rear dust jacket. Photos by Paul Jacobs. Nice solid book. Prentice hardcover books
1950rif. 119557Milano: Biblioteca Universale 1950. Softcover. Good. Good in wrappers. Small paperback has yellowed cover and paperchipped at spine ends smudged. Biblioteca Universale unknown books
1931rif. 172179New York: Hartsdale House 1931. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Later. Very good or better in very good dust jacket. Clean text in cloth covers with mild soil and wear dust jacket s chipped 1" on top edge slightly soiled and worn. Hartsdale House hardcover books
1757rif. ST20210Londres i.e. Paris: Prault 1757-61. 205 x 132 mm. 8 x 5 1/4". Five volumes. Translated by Antoine Jean Le Maçon. LOVELY INDIGO CRUSHED MOROCCO GILT BY DAVID stamp-signed on front turn-in covers with French fillet border raised bands spine compartments with intricate central fleuron and scrolling cornerpieces gilt lettering turn-ins with multiple decorative rolls marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Housed in a maroon buckram chemise in a matching morocco-backed slipcase. Engraved illustrated title page in each volume 110 engraved chapter headings and 205 ENGRAVED ILLUSTRATIONS BY GRAVELOT AND OTHERS 110 of these plates and 95 tailpiece vignettes. A Large Paper Copy. Cohen-de Ricci 160-61; Ray 15; Furstenberg 26. A couple of boards with trivial chafing isolated faint foxing occasional minor marginal smudges touching text on a couple of pages but A VERY FINE SET clean and fresh internally with spacious margins and in sparkling bindings with virtually no signs of wear. This is an elegantly bound and unusually well-preserved copy of one of the most famous and charming illustrated books of the 18th century a work frequently regarded as the supreme example of refined libertine illustration of the period. Owen Holloway calls it one of the four masterpieces of book illustration at the end of the Rococo period. Ray too is expansive in his praise calling the work simply "one of the masterpieces of the illustrated book." The publisher first released this work in Italian in 1757 with the present edition following later the same year. Although he had as collaborators on this work some of the outstanding French artists of the 18th century Gravelot born Hubert-François-Bourguignon 1699-1773 was chiefly responsible for its production designing 89 of its 111 plates and all 97 of its immensely delightful tailpieces. In this the most ambitious undertaking of his career Gravelot gave Boccaccio's narrative the settings and costumes of 18th century France and this transposition Ray tells us "made it possible for him to exercise his special talent for depicting the social world around him. For the most part his figures are young the women graceful and pretty the men lithe and handsome." But "all levels of life are presented from the peasant in his hovel to the king in his palace. Every variety of interior is there from boudoirs and bedrooms to dining rooms and salons. Animated street scenes alternate with glimpses of gardens and farms forests and river banks. The human condition has rarely been so attractively displayed." Our copy is particularly pleasing: it is in fine condition with wide generous margins and was bound in rich indigo morocco by David. Parisian binder Bernard David 1824-95 worked under Pfister Dompierre Lortic and Gruel before striking out on his own to establish a very high reputation in the trade. His bindery was taken over by his son Salvador in 1890. Prault] unknown books
1949rif. 1381576Garden City NY: Garden City Publishing Company Inc 1949. Limited Edition: #396/1500. Hardcover. Octavos Two Volumes. In Very Good condition. Housed in publisher's tan slip case bearing red labels with white and black lettering moderately worn. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spines. Sunning to spine. Minor general shelf wear to boards. Top edges of textblocks gilt. Fore edges of textblock deckled. Signed by Kent and enumerated on limitation page in the front of Volume I. Mild age toning and light scattered staining throughout textblock. Shelved above Case 13. 1381576. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Garden City Publishing Company, Inc hardcover books
1902rif. 206917London: Gibbings and Co. Limited 1902. Hardcover. VG-. Wear around the edges otherwise binding is secure and text block is clean and unmarked besides owners name penned to front end paper. Volume 1 of 4. Twelvemo. Hardcover. Gilt top edge. Halfbound in red leather with five raised bands gilt titles and marbled boards. Marbled end papers. 356 pages. Based on translation by Charles Balguy published anonymously in 1741 as edited by Edward Dubois in 1804 and revised by W.K. Kelly in 1885. This edition revised and partly retranslated by S.W. Orson with introduction by Alfred Wallis. Gibbings and Co. Limited hardcover books
1902rif. 206914London: Gibbings and Co. Limited 1902. Hardcover. VG-. Wear around the edges otherwise binding is secure and text block is clean and unmarked besides owners name penned to front end paper. Volume 3 of 4. Twelvemo. Hardcover. Gilt top edge. Halfbound in red leather with five raised bands gilt titles and marbled boards. Marbled end papers. 356 pages. Based on translation by Charles Balguy published anonymously in 1741 as edited by Edward Dubois in 1804 and revised by W.K. Kelly in 1885. This edition revised and partly retranslated by S.W. Orson with introduction by Alfred Wallis. Gibbings and Co. Limited hardcover books
1900rif. 199045Philadelphia: Printed Only for Subscribers by G. Barrie 1900. Number 56 of 100. Hardcover. Good Boards are edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; interiors are clean but occasionally smudged; binding is solid. Flameng Leopold. Red leather boards with gilt illustration and lettering on the spine; fully gilted textblock edges; 2 volumes; 310 309 pp.; richly illustrated with plates. These two books are beautifully bound with gorgeous spine decoration; this set will have great shelf appeal. One of only 100 beautiful copies printed. Printed Only for Subscribers by G. Barrie hardcover books
1552rif. 184537Venetia: V. Valgrisio 1552. Leather bound. Fair heavy wear to leather boards with sections worn off. Expected age toning to pages but text is otherwise clear and binding is fairly tight. Bound in brown leather boards; five raised bands and gilt tooling on spine; all edge red tinted; red and blue marble illustrated end papers; bw illustrated title page; 10 487 10 pp. The rear of the book contains a separate section titled "Vocabolario Generale di Tutte le Voci Vsate dal Boccaccio." which is 67 pp. Text in Italian. "La vita di m. Giovan Boccaccio descritta da m. Francesco Sansovino": p. 1-6. V. Valgrisio hardcover books
1902rif. 186410Chicago: R.F. Seymour 1902. Hardcover. VG heavy wear to boards. Pages are very clean and clear. Brown paper over boards with gilt lettering and illustration on front cover light gray spine; 38 unnumbered pages bw illustrated title page several bw illustrations. "Limited to 240 copies"- Colophon. "A translation by Leigh Hunt from Canto V the Inferno of Dante Alighieri in the triple rhyme of the original ; with the Italian from the edition of G. Barbèra and a literal translation newly made for this edition by Katherine Reed ; together with a commentary from the writings of Leigh Hunt & Boccaccio." R.F. Seymour hardcover books
1924rif. 186548Berlin: Neufield & Henius 1924. Hardcover. VG/Poor Shelfwear to boards pages are clean and clear. Dj missing from volume one Volume 2 dj has heavy soiling wear and tears. Two volume set bound in red cloth with gilt tooling and lettering; tan paper covers with extensive design and lettering on spine; color illustrated frontispieces. Volume 1 is 400 pp with color plates. Volume 2 is 328 pp with color plates. Text is in German. "This unabridged edition was revised supplemented and provided with a foreword by Klabund on the basis of the original Italian edition. The artistic equipment of the work as well as the pictures are by Lucian Zabel." Neufield & Henius hardcover books
1627rif. 177918Venice: Per il Valentini 1627. Hardcover. Poor sewing coming undone foxing and staining of vellum present marks on pastedown endpapers missing otherwise complete. Bound in vellum on board with 3 raised bands. Woodblock capitals and incidental designs. 20 leaves 247 leaves. "Of the geneology of the gods." Binding copy. Fifteen books dealing with "all the gods of the gentiles" along with the life of Giovanni Boccaccio. Per il Valentini hardcover books
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
1974rif. 136162Milan Italy: Aldo Garzanti Editore 1974. Softcover. VG- 2 pb vols. in good shape except for spine sunning from green to blue. 2 vols. Green & white & illus. wraps 965 pp. Text is in Italian. With an introductory analysis and critique by Antonio Enzo Quaglio. A 14th-century medieval allegory. Aldo Garzanti Editore paperback books
1929rif. 122483London: The Mandrake Press 1929. Softcover. VG- Covers faded and slightly worn. M. Leone. Light green paper over very thin boards; Gilt titling at spine; Gilt illustration to front cover; All edges gilt; 160 pp.; Profusely illustrated in color. Reprinted from the original English edition translated by Bartholomew Young 1587; Edited and with an introduction by K.H. Josling; Wonderful illustrations in vivid color; Number 281 of 550 copies in this edition. The Mandrake Press paperback books
1554rif. ST19091London: Iohn Wayland at the signe of the Sunne oueragainst the Conduite in Flete-strete. Cum priuilegio per septennium 1554 or 1555. Third or Fourth Edition of the First English Translation of "De Casibus Illustrium Virorum. 340 x 220 mm. 13 1/4 x 8 3/4". 9 p.l. clxiii xxxvi xxxv-xxxvii 1 leaves complete including "A Memorial of such Princes" leaf often lacking at the end; collates as ESTC. Translated from the French version of Laurent de Premierfait by John Lydgate. Attractive 19th century honey-brown morocco by Francis Bedford stamp-signed on front turn-in covers gilt with French fillet frame oblique bouquets at corners raised bands spine compartments with central fleuron framed by geometrical compartments filled with floral tooling gilt lettering gilt-rolled turn-ins marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Title page and Gg4 recto title page of a suppressed supplement dealing with English notables with woodcut title border the top compartment with the Royal Arms termini at sides the pedestal at base with a tablet showing one boy waking another with the motto "Arise for it is day" McKerrow & Ferguson 76a A4 recto with woodcut depicting the Creation of Eve flanked by terminal side-pieces woodcut historiated and floral initials throughout. Printed in black letter. Front pastedown with engraved bookplate of Christopher William Beaumont Pease; rear pastedown with bookplates of John William Pease and Lord Wardington. Chrzanowski 1555b; Pforzheimer 73; Luborsky & Ingram 3178; STC 3178; ESTC S107087. Spine somewhat sunned and dulled extremities very lightly rubbed boards with a couple of faint scratches but the once very handsome binding still attractive. Title leaf and final leaf extended at foot first few and last couple of leaves excluding title and final leaf with small minor repair at upper corner probably pressed and perhaps lightly washed at the time of binding isolated trivial stains but the text still surprisingly fresh remarkably clean and entirely smooth. This is a desirable copy of an important 16th century translation of Boccaccio's study of the vicissitudes of fortune prepared by John Lydgate a poet much influenced by Chaucer. Educated in the Benedictine monastery where he eventually served as prior Lydgate ca. 1370 - 1449/50 was a respected poet whose works DNB tells us "bear the mark of a pious and learned mind." And an indication of his importance is reflected in Chrzanowski's statement that "well into the 16th century the premier poets of England were considered to be Geoffrey Chaucer John Gower and Lydgate." Undertaken ca. 1431 at the request of the duke of Gloucester the 36365 lines here divided into nine books required a massive effort that took until 1438 or 1439 to complete. In the text a parade of notable historical figures pass before "Bochas" Boccaccio telling of the turns of fate that brought their careers and reputations crashing down from a pinnacle. According to DNB Lydgate's interpretation of the work "urges the traditional doctrines of moderation the avoidance of pride and the pursuit of virtue and demonstrates the horror of discord and strife between kinsfolk. This advice though couched in general terms was highly relevant to contemporary princes." This relevance led to popularity: more than 30 manuscripts of the work survive and it was printed previously in 1494 and in 1527. The final leaf here Gg4 contains the title page for "A Memorial of Such Princes as since the Tyme of King Richard the Seconde Haue Been Unfortunate in the Realme of England" intended for issue with "Fall of Princes" but suppressed by Queen Mary. It was finally published as the famous "Mirrour for the Magistrates" in 1559 after Elizabeth I had ascended the throne. The binding here is by the eminent West End bindery of Francis Bedford d. 1883 and was owned by three generations of the Wardington family who created one of the finest private libraries in England. It contains the bookplates of Northumberland banker John William Beaumont Pease 1869-1950 who began the collection; a grandson Christopher Henry Beaumont Pease 2nd Baron Wardington 1924-2005 who was successively Chairman Vice-President and then President of the Friends of the British Library; and a great-grandson the Hon. Christopher William Beaumont Pease b. 1970. The Wardington sales at Sotheby's in London were major bibliophilic events in 2005 and 2006. The very expert extension at the bottoms of the title leaf and the rare final leaf would seem to suggest that these come from another copy the leaves are not facsimiles. In any case every recent copy sold at auction according to RBH lacked one or both of these leaves or had other leaves supplied. This fact plus the fine state of preservation of our copy and its distinguished provenance surely are more than enough to compensate for the volume's one appreciable shortcoming. Iohn Wayland, at the signe of the Sunne oueragainst the Conduite in Flete-strete. Cum priuilegio per septennium unknown books
1903rif. 310839London: Bullen 1903. hardcover. very good. Translated by J. M. Rigg. Illustrated by Louis Chalon. 2 volumes. xxi 332; xiii 404 pages. Large 8vo brown cloth uncut edges t.e.g. London: A. H. Bullen 1903. Minor foxing to endpapers and the last few pages of each volume neat ink inscription front free endpaper of volume I still a very good copy. Bullen unknown books
1804rif. 272422London: J. Wright 1804. hardcover. very good. Translated from the Italian. Illustrated with black and white frontispiece and title vignettes. 2 volumes. 8vos full tan calf ornately gilt stamped spines with red and green leather labels gilt stamped dentelles marbled endpapers Head of spine of vol 2 rubbed crazing to front cover of vol 2 and slightly affecting back cover of volume 1. Two red pen lines on verso of the half title page. Some very light foxing confined to a handful of pages. Still a very handsome looking set. London: J. Wright 1804. A very good set. J. Wright 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
