1779 Contes de J. Bocace
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Description
Illustrated, Pleasing Copy, Publishers' Original Binding
A ten-volume set of the works of Giovanni Boccaccio. Complete in ten volumes with ten engravings and a frontispiece to each volume. Volume I has an engraved title-page dated 1777. All volumes with decorative head and tailpieces. Volume I is lacking the portrait of Boccaccio but all other plates are correct. Illustrated by Gravelot, Eisen, Cochin the Younger, and Boucher, reduced and engraved by Vidal. The imprint is false, printed in Paris. Giovanni Boccaccio (In French Jean Bocace) was an Italian author, poet, and correspondent of Petrarch. Boccaccio wrote a number of notable works including the Decameron and On Famous Women. As a poet who wrote in the Italian vernacular, Boccaccio is particularly noted for his realistic dialogue, which differed from his contemporaries.
Condition
In paper-covered boards. Externally, sound with some wear to spines and bumping to extremities. Spines browned. Ink signature to front pastedown of volume I. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages bright with scattered patches of foxing throughout.
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