Les facecieuses nuicts du Seigneur Straparole. Tome I[-II].
Giovanni Francesco Straparola (1480-1557)
Category
Books
Date
1726
Materials
Place of origin
Amsterdam
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3220094
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. ; 12mo. Running number: 7342. Provenance: manuscript inscription on vol. 1 front fly-leaf: "M. 2. vol." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled calf (rubbed); sewn on five raised bands; double and single blind fillet border; gilt roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled spines, with floral stamps within fillet panels and foliate roll pattern along tail; gilt title and date on red goatskin labels on spines. Red sprinkled textblock edges. French curl marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Giovanni Francesco Straparola (1480-1557) , author Larivey, Pierre de, editor Louveau, Jean, editor