BOCCACCIO, Giovanni. Il Decamerone . Londra [i.e. Paris: Prault], 1757. 5 volumes, 8° (195 x 125mm). Engraved title to each volume; engraved portrait of Boccaccio; 110 engraved plates by Le Mire, Lempereur, Flipart and others after Gravelot (89), Boucher, Cochin and Eisen; engraved head- and tail-pieces throughout after Gravelot. (Vol.I E1 and vol.III E1 with pin-holes in lower blank margins.) Contemporary French red morocco gilt, covers with triple fillet borders with floral corner-pieces, flat-backed spines in seven compartments, lettered in two, the others decorated with floral and foliate tools, g.e. (small chips to head and foot of spines, very neat repairs to foot of spine of vol.I and head of spine of vol.V.; neat repairs and very slight damage to lower outer corners of boards). FIRST PRINTING OF THESE PLATES (as indicated by the paraphs in vol.V), on papier de Hollande . The impressions of the head- and tail-pieces are apparently superior in this edition to the later French-language edition. All these factors, combined with a contemporary French red morocco binding, constitute (according to Ray) the ideal copy of one of the "livres illustrés des plus réussis de tout le XVIII . siècle": Cohen-de Ricci 158; Ray French 15; Sander 182. (5)
BOCCACCIO, Giovanni. Il Decamerone . Londra [i.e. Paris: Prault], 1757. 5 volumes, 8° (195 x 125mm). Engraved title to each volume; engraved portrait of Boccaccio; 110 engraved plates by Le Mire, Lempereur, Flipart and others after Gravelot (89), Boucher, Cochin and Eisen; engraved head- and tail-pieces throughout after Gravelot. (Vol.I E1 and vol.III E1 with pin-holes in lower blank margins.) Contemporary French red morocco gilt, covers with triple fillet borders with floral corner-pieces, flat-backed spines in seven compartments, lettered in two, the others decorated with floral and foliate tools, g.e. (small chips to head and foot of spines, very neat repairs to foot of spine of vol.I and head of spine of vol.V.; neat repairs and very slight damage to lower outer corners of boards). FIRST PRINTING OF THESE PLATES (as indicated by the paraphs in vol.V), on papier de Hollande . The impressions of the head- and tail-pieces are apparently superior in this edition to the later French-language edition. All these factors, combined with a contemporary French red morocco binding, constitute (according to Ray) the ideal copy of one of the "livres illustrés des plus réussis de tout le XVIII . siècle": Cohen-de Ricci 158; Ray French 15; Sander 182. (5)
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