Title: The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Author: Boccaccio, Giovanni Place: London Publisher: Privately Printed for Subscribers Date: 1895 Description: 3 volumes. With illustrated plates after designs by Louis Challon, Jaques Wagrez, C D J Eisen, and Leopold Flameng. Translated by John Payne (8vo), original tan linen stamped in gilt, heraldic device to front boards, plain red linen dust jackets with gilt stamped spines, top edges gilt. No. 201 of 304 copies of the Florentine Edition, printed on Van Gelder Holland Paper. Limited edition of Boccaccio's masterpiece, with numerous illustrated plates. With the decorative bookplates of Richard Johnson Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear to dust jackets, with fading and some spotting to spines, light fraying and a small tear to spine ends of vol. 1, light rubbing to extremities; light toning to endpapers; very good. Item number: 288995
Title: The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Author: Boccaccio, Giovanni Place: London Publisher: Privately Printed for Subscribers Date: 1895 Description: 3 volumes. With illustrated plates after designs by Louis Challon, Jaques Wagrez, C D J Eisen, and Leopold Flameng. Translated by John Payne (8vo), original tan linen stamped in gilt, heraldic device to front boards, plain red linen dust jackets with gilt stamped spines, top edges gilt. No. 201 of 304 copies of the Florentine Edition, printed on Van Gelder Holland Paper. Limited edition of Boccaccio's masterpiece, with numerous illustrated plates. With the decorative bookplates of Richard Johnson Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear to dust jackets, with fading and some spotting to spines, light fraying and a small tear to spine ends of vol. 1, light rubbing to extremities; light toning to endpapers; very good. Item number: 288995
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