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Title

The Decameron

of Giovanni Boccaccio

Translated by RICHARD ALDINGTON.

With aquatints by BUCKLAND WRIGHT.

[Numbered Limited Edition – First Edition Thus – Clamshell Box]

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Author

Giovanni Boccaccio

Translated by RICHARD ALDINGTON.

With aquatints by BUCKLAND WRIGHT.

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Year of Publication

2007

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Publisher

London: The Folio Society.

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Description:

London: The Folio Society, 2007, First Edition Thus, Numbered Limited Edition.

First Edition thus, bund in Wassa Goatskin.

Bound in Nigerian goatskin, blocked with an abstract design by Jeff Clements, containing motifs of medieval windows and male and female symbols.

Separate leather title label. Top-edge gilt. Silk ribbon marker. In the original buckram-bound solander box, together with a booklet 'The Happy Art of Narration:

Readings of Boccaccio and the Decameron' by selected writers. Translated by Richard Aldington and illustrated with 20 aquatints by John Buckland-Wright. Set in Poliphilus.

712 pages.

Numbered Limited EDITION LIMITED TO 1750 COPIES of which this is number 1717.

Provenance: no inscriptions or bookplates.

Approximately 11 inches tall (Solander Box).

 

Condition Report

Externally

  • Spine – very good condition.
  • Joints – very good condition.
  • Corners – very good condition.
  • Boards – very good condition.
  • Page edges – very good condition.
  • Solander box – very good condition.
  • See above and photos.

Internally

  • Hinges – very good condition.
  • Paste downs – very good condition.
  • End papers –  very good condition.
  • Title – very good condition.
  • Pages – very good condition.
  • Binding – very good condition.
  • See photos.

Publisher: see above.
Publication Date: 2007
Binding: Hardback

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