Boccaccio, Giovanni

Estimate

8,000 - 10,000 USD

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Description

The Decameron containing an hundred pleasant novels. Wittily discoursed, betweene seaven honourable ladies, and three noble gentlemen. London: Isaac Jaggard, 1620
paper, ink, leather

Folio in 4's and 6's, 2 parts in 1 volume (273 x 81 mm). Two engraved titles, complete with blanks and errata; the latter washed and likely supplied, else an unusually clean copy. Contemporary ruled calf, with some rubbing to joints and short split at tail to upper joint, one spot of restoration to spine. Cloth case.

Provenance

Wedderburne (bookplate)

Literature

STC 3172; Pforzheimer 71; Grolier, Wither to Prior 250

Catalogue Note

first edition in English. Rare, especially in such relatively unsophisticated condition. A key work for the Elizabethan dramatists, especially Shakespeare (with who this work of course shares a printer). A true first edition of the first part is rarely encountered and mostly rebound.