Shelfmark
CS.1423.18 - CS.1423.20
Author
Title
Decamerone / di messer Giovanni Boccaccio.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Londra : Guglielmo Pickering, M.DCCC.XXV. [1825]
Physical description
3 v. : ill., front., port. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Series statement
(Italian classic poetry. Poemi maggiori italiani illustrati da Ugo Foscolo)
Language
In Italian.
Note
With half-titles.
Note
Title page vignettes of a crown of leaves with motto "Perennis et Frangs".
Note
Each vol. has a separate title page but continuous pagination.
Note
Pagination; vol. 1: [2], [8], cxxxv, [1], 228 p., [3] leaves of plates; vol. 2: [6], [229]-586 p., [4] leaves of plates; vol. 3: [6], [587]-967 p., [4] leaves of plates.
Note
"Londra per S. E. R. Bentley, Dorset Street"--Colophon of vol. 3.
Note
Includes Ugo Foscolo's "Discorso storico sul testo del Decamerone": vol. 1, p. [i]-cvi.
Note
Dedicated "Al signore Ruggiero Wilbraham"--Vol. 1.
Note
Vol. 1 contains a portrait of the author engraved by W. H. Worthington after Raffaello.
Note
Four engraved pages tipped in at the beginning of vol. 1, headed "Italian Classic Poetry. Poemi Maggiori Italiani illustrati da Ugo Foscolo", giving series information, conditions, and list of subscribers.
Citation/references note
SBN, IT\ICCU\TO0E\008016.
Binding
19th century full brown calf binding; with printed paper label on spine with title, author and vol. number; unevenly trimmed edges (some uncut); blank endpapers; binder's label on front pastedown of vols. 1-2: "J. Seacome, Bookseller, Chester".
Subject
Plague Italy Florence Fiction.
Subject
Storytelling. Fiction.
Subject
Italian literature To 1400 Fiction.
Genre/Form
Novellas.
Genre/Form
Essays.
Added entry--name
Pickering, William, 1796 - 1854 publisher.
Added entry--name
Foscolo, Ugo, 1778 - 1827 editor.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Bentley, Samuel, 1785 - 1868 printer.
Added entry--name
Seacome, John. bookseller.
Added entry--name
Wilbraham, Roger, 1743 or 1744 - 1829 dedicatee.
Added Entry-Uncontrolled Related/Analytical Title
Discorso storico sul testo del Decamerone.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
ita
Identifier
B54216