Hardcover
1725 · Londra
by Boccaccio, Giovanni
Londra: Tommaso Edlin, 1725. Hardcover. Internally VGand clean, one stain to one sheet, both covers are off at hinges text block solid and tight. Gilt embossed and leather inlay within leather gilt ruled boards. Five raised bands with extensive gilt tooling within compartments (showing wear), all edges gilt. Marbled endpapers indicate binding date in 1880s, (with signed binder Estes and Lauriat, Boston).Frontis portrait by L. Auberso. Title-page, ten(10) sheets including Prefazione, then 284 numbered, (12), (49 pp. ozzervazioni). Bears the etched bookplate of Stephen Whitney, dated 1904. Needs the attentions of a binder, who will have wonderful material to work with. Well-worththe investment, a lovely copy.
(Inventory #: 164132)