The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio / faithfully translated by J.M. Rigg ; with an illustrated introduction and fifteen photogravures from original drawings by Louis Chalon ; in two volumes ...
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)
Category
Books
Date
1921
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3256312
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v., plates : ill. ; 8vo. Pencil code on rear pastedown in v. 1: "ap/e". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (shield on a beaded oval): 'Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full white publisher's cloth; double gilt fillet to form an outer border on upper boards; gilt stamped centrepiece on upper boards: fleur-de-lys; spines gilt, lettered direct: 'The Decameron of Boccaccio illustrated by Louis Chalon'; gilt top edges; light blue ribbon marker in each vol. Some uncut leaves.
Makers and roles
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), author James Macmullen Rigg (1855-1926), translator Louis Chalon II (b.Paris 1866), illustrator Navarre Society , publisher