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Paperback. Condizione: Good. Everyman's Library. Cover shows minor shelf wear. Content page contains some pen markings. Pages are in good shape. Binding is tight.

single broadside, folded once. small 4to. single broadside, folded once. (4) pages. By Giovanni Boccaccio With The Woodcuts Made by Bartolommeo di Giovanni For a Lost Quattrocento Edition, Which Were Used To Illustrate Various Later Texts And Have Now Been Reassembled And Recut. NOTE: THIS IS FOR THE PROSPECTUS ONLY. Folded once, but in fine condition. The original book was one of 225 copies (Schmoller, 102). With woodcuts made by Bartolomeo di Giovanni for a lost Quattraocento edition which were used to illustrate later texts and have now been reassembled and recut. When Mardersteig printed an Italian edition of this work in 1939, he intended to print an English translation. It was not until he found a unique copy of an English translation - John Goubourne's A Famous Tragicall Discourse of Two Lovers, Affrican and Mensola (1597) - that he could proceed. Changes in layout and typeface led to the present edition. Seven woodcuts from the first edition (supplied from reprints of later editions), plus sixteen from the 1568 edition are printed here. The original cuts were photographically transferred to blocks of pearwood and then recut by Fritz Kredel who, according to Mardersteig, "Like the woodcarvers in the days of incunabula, uses a small knife with admirable accuracy and speed to engrave the most delicate lines and drawings." The illustrations, Mardersteig felt, "were restored to their pristine clarity." This edition was considered "unobtainable", however more copies have risen on the market in previous years. Officina Bodoni (illustratore).…

1/4 Morocco. Condizione: Very Good. xxii, 332; xx, 404 pp., Rebound in blue, quarter morocco` with marbled boards and top edge gilt. Boards fresh and bright. Minor scattered spotting throughout. Illustrated with 12 tissue guarded photogravure plates. Very good to near fine copy. 26.5 by 19.5 cm 4to. Chalon, Louis (illustratore). …