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BOCCACCIO, Giovanni. A Treatise excellent and compendious, shewing and declaring, in maner of Tragedye, the falls of sondry most notable Princes and Princesses with other Nobles first compiled in Latin by the excellent Clerke Bocatius, an Italian borne. And sence that tyme translated into our English and Vulgare tong, by Dan John Lidgate. London: Richard Tottel, 10 September 1554.
2o (321 x 221 mm). Black letter, printed in double columns. Title within and elaborate historiated woodcut border (McKerrow & Ferguson 68); 12 woodcuts in the text. (Title-page and five following leaves comprising the Table skillfully inlaid.) Early 19th-century maroon straight-grained morocco gilt, with the coroneted D of the Duke of Devonshire in the top compartment of spine, edges gilt (corners bumped, some minor rubbing). Provenance: Duke of Devonshire (binding); Harold Marshall (bookplate); acquired from Bernard Quaritch, 1975.
Third edition, and the first (and only early) edition to contain the supplemental "The daunce of Machabree", which is often lacking. The first of the woodcut illustrations is at the end of the author's Prologue, and the ones at the beginning of each of the nine books are the same blocks Pynson used in his second edition (1527). Additionally, in the Dance Macabre there are two cuts (fols. 220v and 224r), which "are very fine both in design and conception, though not of the neatest execution, and deserve to be ranked as among the best of English sixteenth century wood-engravings" (Pforzheimer 74). STC 3177.
2o (321 x 221 mm). Black letter, printed in double columns. Title within and elaborate historiated woodcut border (McKerrow & Ferguson 68); 12 woodcuts in the text. (Title-page and five following leaves comprising the Table skillfully inlaid.) Early 19th-century maroon straight-grained morocco gilt, with the coroneted D of the Duke of Devonshire in the top compartment of spine, edges gilt (corners bumped, some minor rubbing). Provenance: Duke of Devonshire (binding); Harold Marshall (bookplate); acquired from Bernard Quaritch, 1975.
Third edition, and the first (and only early) edition to contain the supplemental "The daunce of Machabree", which is often lacking. The first of the woodcut illustrations is at the end of the author's Prologue, and the ones at the beginning of each of the nine books are the same blocks Pynson used in his second edition (1527). Additionally, in the Dance Macabre there are two cuts (fols. 220v and 224r), which "are very fine both in design and conception, though not of the neatest execution, and deserve to be ranked as among the best of English sixteenth century wood-engravings" (Pforzheimer 74). STC 3177.