Peter Bichsel   Fine Books

Boccaccio, Giovanni. Il decamerone. Tomi I–III. 3 vols.

3 engr. titles after J. M. Moreau le jeune. XXIV, 490 pp.; 469 pp.; 443 pp. 12mo. Contemp. mottled calf with gilt stamped noble supralibros. Edges gilt. – Londra (i.e. Paris), Marcello Prault, 1768.

Pocket edition of Boccaccio’s „Decamerone“ in a handsome contemporary binding. Copy with armorial supralibros of George Granville Leveson-Gower, first Duke of Sutherland (1758–1833). Vol. I with the life of Boccaccio by Filippo di Matteo Villani. – Engr. bookplate Samuel Ibbetson on inner front boards. – Best.-Nr. 23449