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Il Decamerone di M. Giovanni Boccaccio

Author: Giovanni Boccaccio

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Il Decamerone di M. Giovanni Boccaccio

Author: Giovanni Boccaccio

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Il Decamerone di M. Giovanni Boccaccio

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Publisher:  s.e.

Place of printing:  London

Year of publication: 

Product Condition:
Opera in five volumes. Specimen in good condition. Leather binding with golden corners, titles and decorations on the backs and marbled plates; small abrasions and streaks on the backs; most common abrasions to plates, edges and corners. Burnished spots in correspondence of the corners to the counterplates and to the guard sheets. Well preserved papers, with rare pale blooms; ownership note in ink on the first blank paper in all volumes. Cuts burnished, sprayed, with dust spots. Written in pencil on the first guard sheet, written in pencil on the rear counterplate and closed side cut in B5 (first volume). Lateral cuts closed in F7 and Q7, small lack in the lower corner in P (second volume). Side cuts closed in F7 and H7 (third volume). Side cuts closed in D7, H7 and L7, small lack in the lower corner in F2 (fourth volume). Small tear in B2, closed lateral cuts in E7 and O7, closed lateral cuts in N7, written upside down in C2 (fifth volume). Text in Italian language.

Pages:  (6), XI, (3), 292, (2); (6), 271, (3); (6), 195, (3); (6), 261, (3); (6), 247, (3)

Format:  In the eighth

Dimensions (cm):
Height:  21
Width:  14

Description

Splendid edition of the Decameron, a masterpiece of 18th century French illustration: every day and every short story is preceded by an engraved plate f.t. drawn by the major artists of the genre (Boucher, Cochin, Eisen and Gravelot), for a total of 110 plates in addition to the portrait of the author in the first volume, the title pages of the individual volumes and the very elegant engraved ends. The place of publication, indicated as London at the forntespizi, is actually Paris: we are facing one of the greatest graphic masterpieces of the era of Louis XV

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