Live veiling - Lot 1220

Il Decamerone [...] alla sua intera perfettione ridotto, et con dichiarationi et avvertimenti illustrato, per Girolamo Ruscelli. Ora in questa terza edizione dal medesimo per tutto migliorato. Con un vocabolario generale nel fine del libro, et con gli epiteti dell'autore [...].

BOCCACCIO, Giovanni

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Beschrijving lot

Venice, V. Valgrisi & B. Costantini, 1557

4to: [8]-496-[72] pp. (soiling, lower corner of p. 49 repaired, underlinings in quire HH and occ. ms. notes, occ. ink stains at the end).

18th-c. red morocco, gilt ruled covers and spine with raised bands (sm. traces of use).

Rare third Ruscelli edition (1st: 1552). Illustrated with 10 large woodcuts within repeated borders at the beginning of each "giornata". Ornamental initials, printer's mark on title and verso of last leaf. Life of Boccaccio by the humanist and publisher Sansovino (1521-1586).
Ref. EDIT16 6340. - STC Italian p. 110. - Cp. Mortimer 73 (1552 ed.), Adams B-2152 (id.) & B-2154 (1554 ed.), Gamba 57 (1552 ed.) and Essling 660 (id.).
Prov. Dr. Jan Peremans (mod. bookpl.). - Sold at Croft's auction in 1783 and at Beckford's sale in 1808 (cfr. ms. note on front endpaper).

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