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Folio Society Decameron

by Giovanni Boccaccio, Translated by Richard Aldington and illustrated with 20 aquatints by John Buckland-Wright
Limited Edition

This is copy number 519

• PUBLISHED BY Folio Society, London
• Bound in Nigerian goatskin, blocked with an abstract design by Jeff Clements, containing motifs of medieval windows and male and female symbols.
  
• Separate leather titling label. Top-edge gilding. Ribbon marker.
  
• Presented in a buckram-bound solander box, together with a booklet ‘The Happy Art of Narration: Readings of Boccaccio and the Decameron’ by selected writers.
  
• Set in Poliphilus. 712 pages. 10˝ x 6¼˝. Each is numbered by hand on a limitation page.
  

CONDITION DESCRIPTION: This copy in in like new and unread condition: clean inside pages, tight bindings, firm hardcover. The set will be a great addition to your family library

SHIPPING / HANDLING: Book(s) will be handled/packed very safely, and shipped via USPS media mail with delivery confirmation.