Boccace

Best.-Nr. 51-2094 — Londres i.e. Paris: Pierre Prault: 1757-1761. 5 volumes bound in blue quarter smooth morocco demi chagrin and marbled boards and endpapers; spine lettered and decorated in gilt. 8vo. 13 x 21 cm. Printed on Dutch laid paper Hollande. A high point of 18th Century book illustration. Cohen p.70; Brunet I p.1007. The imprint is false actually published in Paris by Pierre Prault. Text in French using the same illustrations as the Itlalian text version of the same year. Illustrated throughout with engravings after Gravelot Boucher Cochin and Eisen engraved by Aliamet Baquoy Flipart Legrand Lemire Lempereur and others; including a portrait of Boccaccio by Gravelot; chapter heads vignettes; 110 plates collated 22 per volume most with tissue guards. Leather discolored; wear to spine ends edges and corners; boards rubbed; remnant of book plate front pastedowns; occasional light to moderate foxing even tanning of text pages but plates very clean with a small number in light pencil in upper leading corners of wide margins; occasional light to moderate offset to text pages from vignettes chapter heads. Binding is tight.Ouvrage composé d'un portrait de 5 frontispices 110 gravures et 97 culs de lampe par Gravelot Boucher et Eisen. Londres (i.e., Paris: Pierre Prault): 1757-1761. hardcover