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The Decameron Containing An hundred pleasant Nouels. Wittily discoursed, betweene seauen Honourable Ladies, and three Noble Gentlemen.
- Title
- The Decameron Containing An hundred pleasant Nouels. Wittily discoursed, betweene seauen Honourable Ladies, and three Noble Gentlemen.
- Author
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
- Publication
- London, printed by Isaac Iaggard, 1620.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | By appointment only | Spencer Coll. Eng. 1620 79-201 | Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308 |
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- Description
- 2 v. in 1 ([6], 210 (i. e. 192), [1]; [13], 187 (i. e. 186) l.) illus.; 30 cm.
- Uniform Title
- Decamerone. English
- Alternative Title
- Decamerone.
- Subject
- Note
- Pforzheimer 71 // STC 3172 // Vol. 2 has special t. p.: The Decameron ... The last Fiue Dayes.
- Translation ascribed to John Florio. Cf. H. G. Wright, The first English translation of the Decameron. Upsala, 1953.
- Numerous errors in foliation.
- Blank leaf at end of vol. 1 and at beginning of Vol. 2 (not included in collation).
- Illustrations: 6 small woodcuts (oval vignettes within rectangular ornamental borders) on t. p. of vol. 1, repeated in a different order on t. p. of vol. 2 and inserted in the text a total of 98 times. The cuts, depicting activities of the narrators of the tales, are copies of those first used in the 1558 Lyons (G. Rouillé) ed. of A. le Maçon's French translation of the Decameron. For detailed account and reproductions, cf. Wright, p. 271-275 and plates.
- Binding, by F. Bedford, of brown morocco, gilt.
- Provenance: John Phillpotts (superexlibris from 18th-cent. binding mounted on pastedowns); Frank Brewer Bemis, Jean Hersholt, David and Lulu Borowitz (bookplates).
- Call Number
- Spencer Coll. Eng. 1620 79-201
- OCLC
- NYPG794425845-B
- Author
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
- Title
- The Decameron Containing An hundred pleasant Nouels. Wittily discoursed, betweene seauen Honourable Ladies, and three Noble Gentlemen.
- Imprint
- London, printed by Isaac Iaggard, 1620.
- Added Author
- Florio, John, 1553?-1625.Bedford, Francis, 1799-1883.
- Research Call Number
- Spencer Coll. Eng. 1620 79-201