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Boccaccio, Il Decamerone, Venice, Valgrisi, 1554, seventeenth-century red morocco gilt

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October 4, 09:20 AM GMT

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800 - 1,000 EUR

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Giovanni Boccaccio


Il Decamerone, alla sua intera perfettione ridotto per Girolamo Ruscelli. Hora in questa seconda editione migliorato. Con un vocabolario generale. Venice: Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1554 (1557)


2 parts in one volume, 4to (214 x 153mm.), woodcut printer's device on both title-pages and final verso (otherwise blank), woodcut initials and illustrations, ruled in red, with blank leaf *6, seventeenth-century French red morocco gilt, spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges, a few small wormholes at foot of spine


A charming copy of the 1554 reprint of the illustrated Valgrisi edition of 1552, with the second part from the 1557 printing.


LITERATURE:

Edit16 6333 (& 6340); cf. Mortimer, Harvard Italian 73 (1552 Valgrisi edition)


PROVENANCE:

Roger Portalis (1841-1912), red morocco gilt booklabel

A charming copy of the 1554 reprint of the illustrated Valgrisi edition of 1552, with the second part from the 1557 printing.

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