BOCCACCIO | The Decameron, 1625-1620

From the Library of the Earls of Haddington

BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI

[The Decameron] The Modell of Wit, Mirth, Eloquence, and Conversation. Isaac Jaggard for Mathew Lownes, 1625-1620.

2 volumes in 1, folio, second edition of volume one (1625), woodcut border to title [McKerrow & Ferguson 212], woodcut illustrations, with preliminary and final blank, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of volume II of The Decameron (1620), title in woodcut border, with preliminary blank, final two leaves number 177 and 187, contemporary calf stamped in blind, fore-edge title, rebacked, browning and slightly soiling, spine splitting, bumped

LITERATURE:

ESTC S107074; ESTC S106639

PROVENANCE:

Thomas Hamilton (1721-1794), 7th Earl of Haddington, engraved armorial bookplate; thence by descent to the Earls of Haddington 

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