Item #104038 The Decameron (Two Volumes). Giovanni Boccaccio, Introd. Edward Hutton, trans. J. M. Rigg.

The Decameron (Two Volumes)

London: Dent, 1955. Two volumes (complete), original red cloth boards with gilt title to spine, dec endpapers, b&w frontisplate illustration both volumes, pp xxiii, 293; xiv, 350. Near-fine condition.

14th century Italian stories, structured as 100 tales told by young men and women as they seclude themselves in a villa outside Florence to escape the Black Death. Item #104038

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