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The Nights of Straparola The Novellino & Ser Giovanni

1894réf. 911T66London: Lawrence & Bullen Ltd. 1894-1897. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 11.5" by 8". E. R. Hughes. The first translated editions of these limited edition volumes illustrated throughout. Five volumes. First thus. Translated by William George Waters a British scholar biographer and historian of the Italian Renaissance. Illustrated by Edward Robert Hughes a British painter who primarily worked in watercolours. This set includes: The Nights of Straparola 1894. Complete in two volumes. Limited to one thousand copies unnumbered. Each volume is illustrated with a frontispiece and eight plates. Collated complete. A collection of seventy-five stories by Italian author and fairy-tale collector Giovanni Francesco Straparola modeled after Boccaccio's Decameron. It is considered significant as the first European storybook to contain fairy-tales. The Novellino of Masuccio 1895. Complete in two volumes. Limited to one thousand copies of which this is number four hundred and ninety-six. Volume one is illustrated with eight plates. Volume two is illustrated with ten plates. Collated complete. The fifty short stories of fifteenth century Italian poet Masuccio Salernitano each prefaced by a letter of dedication to a famous person and with an epilogue containing the "moral" of the story. The Pecorone of Ser Giovanni 1897. Limited to six hundred copies of which this is number four hundred and twenty-seven. Illustrated with eleven plates. Collated complete. An Italian novella written by Florentine writer Giovanni Fiorentino said to be an influence on Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. In the original full cloth binding. Externally smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Light damp marks to the tail of the spines. Front hinge starting but firm to The Pecorone. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot or handling mark. Age toning to the endpapers. Very Good Lawrence & Bullen Ltd. hardcover

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