The Decameron
( John BUCKLAND-WRIGHT, illus. ) BOCCACCIO, Giovanni
With illustrations by John Buckland-Wright.
1750 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Published: Folio Society, 2007
Stock code: 48835
Price: £385.00
4to., First Edition thus, with 20 aquatints; full red morocco, sides and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt and green to geometric designed by Jeff Clements, gilt top, ribbon marker, a near fine copy housed in publisher's board slip-case lettered in gilt.
EDITION LIMITED TO 1750 COPIES. With separate booklet 'The Happy Art of Narration, Readings of Boccaccio and the Decameron' by Dryden, Coleridge, Hazlitt, Shelley and Leight Hunt.