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BOCCACCIO, Giovanni (1313-1375). Il decamerone, Venice: Gabriel Giolito de'Ferrari, 1546. 4° (220 x 150mm). Large woodcut device on title and a different one on the verso of II3, 10 woodcut illustrations in the text, with the blank II4. (Small wormhole in lower margins throughout, occasionally just touching text, tear in top inner corner of title, first gathering very lightly browned). 18th-century calf gilt. (Spine somewhat worn, upper cover nearly detached). Provenance: Earl of Jersey, Osterley Park (bookplate). Third Giolitine edition. Bongi I, pp.134-35; Bacci della Lega, p.40.

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BOCCACCIO, Giovanni (1313-1375). Il decamerone, Venice: Gabriel Giolito de'Ferrari, 1546. 4° (220 x 150mm). Large woodcut device on title and a different one on the verso of II3, 10 woodcut illustrations in the text, with the blank II4. (Small wormhole in lower margins throughout, occasionally just touching text, tear in top inner corner of title, first gathering very lightly browned). 18th-century calf gilt. (Spine somewhat worn, upper cover nearly detached). Provenance: Earl of Jersey, Osterley Park (bookplate). Third Giolitine edition. Bongi I, pp.134-35; Bacci della Lega, p.40.

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