1929 Amorous Fiammetta

Description

Author's Presentation Copy, Colour Plates, Illustrated, Limited Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed

Limited to five-hundred and fifty copies, with this copy being out of series.

A lovely copy of Boccaccio's novel about a Neapolitan noblewoman's passion for a Florentine merchant, a work categorised as the first 'psychological novel' in Western literature due to its first person narration.

Illustrated with thirty colour plates and decorations by M. Leone. Collated, complete.

A signed presentation copy of this work, with the inscription 'to Jodie Carp from The Mandrake Press, P. R. Stephensen, London 1929' to the front free endpaper.

Stephensen founded the publisher of this work, the Mandrake Press, in the year that this work was published. Stephensen was a political activist, and also co-founded the fascist Australia First movement.

With the further inscription of K. H. Josling, the editor of this work, also to the front pastedown.

With the illustrated bookplate of K. W. C. Down to the front pastedown.

A delightfully illustrated work.