BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI; ALDINGTON, RICHARD (TRANSLATION); KENT, ROCKWELL - The Decameron of Giovanni Baccacio

Garden City, New York, Garden City Publishing Company Inc. NONE. 1949. (hardcover) Very good. xxviii, 562pp. 8vo. 100 tales; 10 each day for 10 days. Quarter bound, beige cloth with red cloth boards, some markings. Light stain at inner front hinge. Corners bumped. 32 plates and a single black and white illustration at the start of each day; magnificent illustrations by the incomparable Rockwell Kent. Overall a very good, solid copy of this important work, a historical record of the Black Plague.

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