Author: BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI
Title: The Decameron (Complete Two Volume Set) (Everyman's Library #845 & 846)
Description: London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1946. Hardcover. A 1946 reprint of the 1930 issuances. A complete, 2-volume Everyman's Library set of Giovanni Boccaccio's famous collection of 100 short stories, which first appeared in Venice in 1471. Translated from the Italian by J. M. Riggs, and with an introduction by Edward Hutton. Numbers 845 & 846 in Everyman's Library Romance series, edited by Ernest Rhys. --- In EL binding style 3 with full light blue cloth and gilt-stamped spine titling; blindstamped Eric Ravilious-designed 'shell' to covers, and brown topstain. Volumes wrapped in orange dust jackets with Ravilious 'knot' to front panels. --- With prior owner's dated signatures to front free endpapers, attractive Foyles of Charing Cross bookseller label to front paste-down of vol. 2, else a tightly-bound, unmarked set. Rather brittle jackets with open tears to spines, else bright, intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protectors.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); xxiv, 293, xiv, 350, 16 (ads) pages. Very Good in Fair dust jacket .

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