Author: Giovanni Boccaccio; J. M. Rigg [translator]
Title: The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
Description: London, A. H. Bullen, 1903. Leather. A finely bound complete set of this collection of short stories from Boccaccio, translated and illustrated. Complete in two volumes. Volume one is illustrated with frontispiece and seven plates. Volume two is illustrated with four plates. Collated complete. A collection of one-hundred short stories, originally written in the fourteenth century, told by a group of seven young women and three young men as they shelter in a villa outside of Florence to escape the Black Death. The tales range from the erotic to the tragic, from tales of wit to moral life lessons. This work is considered an important record of Italian life at this time. Written by Giovanni Boccaccio, an Italian writer, poet, and Renaissance humanist who was a known correspondent of Petrarch. Translated by James Macmullen Rigg, a British barrister, legal scholar, and translator. Illustrated by Louis Chalon, a French artist who exhibited classically inspired paintings. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London. Bound in half calf with patterned boards. Externally, very smart with fading to the spine the extremities. Light shelf wear only. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot and minor age toning to the endpapers. Near Fine . Ill.: Louis Chalon. Near Fine .

Keywords: Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio Rigg Giovanni Louis Chalon


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