John Boccaccio Edward Hutton (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible, Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. Quarto, hardcover, fine in brown cloth over boards in near fine slipcase. 1968 edition. No sandglass. 536 pp. Framed in ten days, of an hundred curious pieces, by seven honourable ladies, and thee noble gentlemen. Fritz Kredel. woodcuts (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Heritage Press. Hardcover. Like New.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Special Edition. Large octavo volume in full, brown leather binding with gilt lettering, borders and decoration; all edges gilt. Color frontispiece portrait and B&W illustrations in text. Fine condition. Pages: xxi, 536.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. The Decameron: The Modell of Wit, Mirth, Eloquence, and Conversation. Boccaccio, John; Hutton, Edward (translator and introduction). Published by Easton Press, Norwalk, 1980. Illustrated by Fritz Kredel. Red leather boards, banded spine with gilt spine titles, gilt designs to front and back, all edges gilt, bronze silk endpapers with matching reading ribbon. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 536pp., illustrated with woodcuts; color portrait frontispiece of author. Very light ghost mark to pastedown from removed sticker and otherwise volume is in fine, unread condition. The Decameron was written after the Black Plague spread through Italy in 1348. The stories are told in a country villa outside the city of Florence by ten young noble men and women who are seeking to escape the ravages of the plague. Each of the ten tell one story each day for ten days resulting in the 100 stories of the Decameron. Most of the tales did not originate with Boccaccio; some of them were centuries old already in his time, but Boccaccio imbued them all with his distinctive style. The stories run the gamut from tragedy to comedy, from lewd to inspiring, and sometimes all of those at once. They also provide a detailed picture of daily life in fourteenth-century Italy. Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) was an Italian writer and humanist, one of the founders of the Renaissance.…

Leather. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Collector Edition. This book is in fine condition with tight binding and clean text. This book is apart of the 100 Greatest Books Ever Written Collector's Edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Kredel, Fritz (illustrator). 100 Greatest Books Ever.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Full-Leather. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Type: Book Collector Edition. This book is in fine condition with tight binding and clean text. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Thus. A Fine, tight, and unread copy of the Easton Press Collector's Edition, in the Publisher's red leather with the spine lettered and decorated in gilt and the front and rear board decorated in gilt as well. The leaves are printed on archival paper, the pastedowns and the facing side of each free endpaper is moire fabric, the edges of the closed page block are in gilt, and the volume contains an elegant ribbon page marker; part of the Easton Press's Collector's Edition of The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written, with a frontispiece and also with and multiple additional illustrations by Fritz Kredel in the Renaissance manner. Photo scan available. Shipments to USA, USPS via Canada Post Express; FREE OF CUSTOMS OR DUTY CHARGE.…

Condition: Good.

Condition: Good. TWO VOLUMES. 4to. 536 pp., Very Good, Half Black Gilded Calf On Decorative Cloth Covered Boards, with staining on cloth boards, minor rubbing on gilt top edge of text block, shelf wear & rubbing along leather bound spine, otherwise Near Fine. Provenance: John Ruyle; bookplate of previous owner, Alice Dyar Russell, inside cover of Volume I. Numbered 55 of 530 copies, signed by Illustrator Fritz Kredel on colophon page. New Translations have been supplied for stories omitted from the Florio translation.…