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BOCCACCIO, Giovanni(1313-1373). Il decamerone...con tre novelle aggiunte. Florence: Filippo Giunta, 29 July 1516.
4° in 8's (191 x 117mm). Woodcut at the beginning of the Proemio showing Boccaccio's seven women and three men seated in a garden for the telling of the tales, this block repeated six times, 96 small woodcuts (including one repeat), device on last page. Late 18th-century French red morocco, flat spine gilt, triple gilt fillet around sides with a floral tool at corners, gilt turn-ins, g.e. Provenance: Duca di Castano (signature on an endpaper).
FIRST GIUNTINE EDITION of the Decameron and the first edition to contain the three extra novels. The first woodcut is a reduced, reverse copy of the illustration used in the 1492 edition, as are also the charming but rather crude smaller woodcuts. On the verso of the title-page there is a rather curious address by 'Boccaccio' to the reader in which he discusses the art of printing and praises the present printer.
4° in 8's (191 x 117mm). Woodcut at the beginning of the Proemio showing Boccaccio's seven women and three men seated in a garden for the telling of the tales, this block repeated six times, 96 small woodcuts (including one repeat), device on last page. Late 18th-century French red morocco, flat spine gilt, triple gilt fillet around sides with a floral tool at corners, gilt turn-ins, g.e. Provenance: Duca di Castano (signature on an endpaper).
FIRST GIUNTINE EDITION of the Decameron and the first edition to contain the three extra novels. The first woodcut is a reduced, reverse copy of the illustration used in the 1492 edition, as are also the charming but rather crude smaller woodcuts. On the verso of the title-page there is a rather curious address by 'Boccaccio' to the reader in which he discusses the art of printing and praises the present printer.