Lot 8
Boccaccio (Giovanni) Il Decamerone, Florence, Philippo di Giunta, 1516.
Estimate: £10,000 - 15,000
Description
Boccaccio (Giovanni) Il Decamerone...con tre novelle aggiunte, collation: AA8 a-z8 &8 [pi-2pi]8 A-O8 P10 complete with final leaf (blank except for woodcut device on verso), numerous woodcut illustrations in text including larger ones for chapter headings, occasional minor foxing, 18th century red morocco, gilt, g.e., single small worm-hole to spine, a couple of minor scratches, 8vo, Florence, Philippo di Giunta, 29 July, 1516.
⁂ Superb copy of the rare first Giunta edition with its splendid series of illustrations and which contains the three extra novels for the first time. 'Boccaccio's' address to the reader discusses the art of printing and praises the present printer. The woodcut at the beginning of the 'Proemio' shows Boccaccio's seven women and three men seated in a garden for the telling of the tales (this is repeated).
Literature: Gamba 170, 'raro'; EDIT 16 CNCE 6240.
Description
Boccaccio (Giovanni) Il Decamerone...con tre novelle aggiunte, collation: AA8 a-z8 &8 [pi-2pi]8 A-O8 P10 complete with final leaf (blank except for woodcut device on verso), numerous woodcut illustrations in text including larger ones for chapter headings, occasional minor foxing, 18th century red morocco, gilt, g.e., single small worm-hole to spine, a couple of minor scratches, 8vo, Florence, Philippo di Giunta, 29 July, 1516.
⁂ Superb copy of the rare first Giunta edition with its splendid series of illustrations and which contains the three extra novels for the first time. 'Boccaccio's' address to the reader discusses the art of printing and praises the present printer. The woodcut at the beginning of the 'Proemio' shows Boccaccio's seven women and three men seated in a garden for the telling of the tales (this is repeated).
Literature: Gamba 170, 'raro'; EDIT 16 CNCE 6240.
Related Lots
Back To Auction Catalogue
Newsletter Signup
Keyword Alerts
You can now save your preferences to receive emails, or create a free lite account which gives you more features.
Would you like to receive personalised keyword alerts when new catalogues go live. If so, please indicate these below
Set a password to save your keyword alerts
Passwords are a minimum of 7 characters and must include an upper case letter, a lower case letter, a number and a special character.
Newsletter