The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio.

BOCCACCIO, Giovanni 1313-1375 / [ RIGG, J.M. (James Macmullen Rigg 1855-1926.- translator) ] / [SYMMONDS, John Addington ] .:

Verlag: London: Privately Printed By the Navarre Society Ltd, 1922

Beschreibung

Publication date etc. from British Library. A very good half leather binding. 2 Volumes bound in 1. 8vo. 8.00" x 5.75" x 1.75". pp.62/[2pp.]/pp.332/pp.404 . This edition has no coloured illustrations. Polished maroon calf spine and corners over pink marbled boards. Edges lightly rubbed and bumped. Spine with 5 raised bands, gilt decorated compartments and gilt titles: "Boccaccio's Decameron". Top page edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Half-title present. Printed title-page. Introduction with illustrations within the text. Followed by: "Giovannia Boccaccio As Man And Author By John Addington Symonds". Clear English text throughout on lightly toned paper. VG. ** "The Decameron sometimes nicknamed l'Umana commedia ("the Human comedy"), is a collection of novellas by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 1375). The book is structured as a frame story containing 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and three young men; they shelter in a secluded villa just outside Florence in order to escape the Black Death, which was afflicting the city." - See Wikipedia. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 46508

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio.

Verlag: London: Privately Printed By the Navarre Society Ltd

Erscheinungsdatum: 1922

Einband: Hardcover