Boccaccio, Giovanni - Dechamerone over cento novelle... Lot 107
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Boccaccio, Giovanni - Dechamerone over cento novelle de misser Joanni Boccaccio.
Venice, Bartolomeo Zanni, August 5, 1510. In 2nd, 295 x 210 mm. 125 numbered papers, text on 2 columns in Gothic type, above the title elegant and famous two-compartment vignette reverse copy of the one that adorns Day IV in the June 20, 1492 edition, this same engraving is later repeated throughout the edition at the opening of each Day, in the text 97 vignettes of which many are repeated but most are original, in some there are monograms b, F, i and are borrowed from the 1493 edition of Titus Livius and other editions, small ornate initials on black ground, title page and first 4 wrappers heavily damaged and restored, first 40 wrappers have moisture halos and several restorations with losses also restored in pen, remainder of copy is perfect and with large margins, modern binding in full amaranth leather with gold title on green gusset. Cartouche inside the counterplate, with bibliographical information, by 19th-century hand; duplicate from the British Museum [British Library] as indicated by stamp at colphon: "Museum Britannicum Duplicate for sale 1769."
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