Giovanni Boccaccio First Edition
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“Let us not waste the little time we have in idle lamentation": Elegantly bound 19th century Venetian printing of Boccaccio’s masterpiece The Decameron
BOCCACCIO, Giovanni.
Il Decameron Di Messer Giovanni Boccacci, Tratto dall’ ottimo Testo scritto Da Francesco D’Amaretto Mannelli Sull’Originale Dell’Autor.
1813: Vitarelli, Venezia.
Finely bound 19th century Venetian printing of Boccaccio’s masterpiece. 12mo, five volumes bound in full straight grain morocco with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, ribbons bound in, illustrated with engravings, engraved frontispiece portrait of Boccaccio to Vol. I, folding plate to Vols. I, II, and III. In very good condition. Ownership inscription to each volume. A very elegant set.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 149651
