The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio. Faithfully translated by J.M. Rigg. With illustrations by Louis Chalon ...
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)
Category
Books
Date
1906
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222801
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v, plates : ill. ; 27 cm. +. 1 folder ([8] plates). Bookseller's pencil mark, v.1: cn/-. Provenance: twentieth-century pictorial bookplate (dated 1910), bearing arms of Vane-Tempest-Stewart impaling Chaplin. Banners with motto (1) in Scottish Gaelic ("Tha mo cridhe's an tir nam beann" [My heart is in the land of mountains]), (2) Knowledge is the antidote to fear. Open book entitled "Of gardens by Bacon". Images of a horse and Castlereagh portrait. Banner lettered "Edith Castlereagh" around image of Diana Chasseresse [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959), m. in 1899 Charles Viscount Castlereagh, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Binding: red publisher's cloth, gold centrepiece ornament, gold lettered spines. Plates folder: quarter red cloth, with red paper boards, lettered in black.
Makers and roles
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) Louis Chalon II (b.Paris 1866) James Macmullen Rigg (1855-1926)