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BOCCACCIO, Giovanni. [The Decameron.] Centum Novella Johannis Boccaccii. Hundert neuwer historien, welche eyn erbar gesellschafft von dreien männern und sieben weibern fliehent ein groß sterben zu Florentz zusamen geredt. Translated by Heinrich Steinhöwel. Strassburg: Jacob Cammerlander for Johannes Albrecht, 1535.
2° (300 x 202mm). Collation: i-iv; A-Z6 a-m6 n8. Title with woodcut vignette of courtly ladies in a walled garden, 66 woodcut illustrations, woodcut device on verso of final leaf. (Some unobtrusive worming, mainly to margins, with occasional loss of a few characters, a little light spotting and finger soiling.) Contemporary calf over wooden boards, tooled in blind to a panel design of two vertical intertwined pattern strips within a similar frame, original vellum title label on upper cover, later(?) brass clasps and corner-pieces, spine in four compartments with raised bands (slight worming, spine neatly repaired at head and foot). First edition of this translation. Goedeke I, 368; Brunet I, 1008; Graesse I, 452. Not in BL or Adams.
2° (300 x 202mm). Collation: i-iv; A-Z6 a-m6 n8. Title with woodcut vignette of courtly ladies in a walled garden, 66 woodcut illustrations, woodcut device on verso of final leaf. (Some unobtrusive worming, mainly to margins, with occasional loss of a few characters, a little light spotting and finger soiling.) Contemporary calf over wooden boards, tooled in blind to a panel design of two vertical intertwined pattern strips within a similar frame, original vellum title label on upper cover, later(?) brass clasps and corner-pieces, spine in four compartments with raised bands (slight worming, spine neatly repaired at head and foot). First edition of this translation. Goedeke I, 368; Brunet I, 1008; Graesse I, 452. Not in BL or Adams.